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SEYMOUR  DURST 


If  ben  you  leape,  p/ease  lewe  this  book 

Because  it  has  been  said 
"Ever'thing  comes  t'  him  who  waits 

Except  a  loaned  book." 


HIHHI^HHHIH^HIIII^H^Hl 


Avery  Architectural  and  Fine  Arts  Library 
Gift  of  Seymour  B.  Durst  Old  York  Library 


THE  HAMILTONIAD. 


CANTO  THE  THIRD. 


Argument. 

Winter  delineated  in  all  his  horrors — A  flight  fketch  in  imitation  of  VirglCs 
Night — Somnus,  in  companion  to  the  Royal  Faction,  adminifters  a  fhort 
repofe — They  are  awakened  by  their  familiar  Demon — Each  utters  a  dying 
Speech — The  Gods,  offended  at  their  criminality  and  arrogance,  extinguifh 
their  humanity  in  a  metamorpholis — An  Elegy  at  their  hall  of  caroufal. 

WHEN,  at  paft  four,  P.  Mi  the  radiant  God, 

(Led  by  the  Paphian  Boy's  imperious  nod) 

Sunk,  neath  th'  horizon,  arm'd  with  am'rous  fires, 

His  magic  fong,  announcing  his  defires  : 

To  clafp  his  Thetis  to  his  burning  bread  \ 

Leaving  a  fordid  hemifphere  to  reft  ; 

Amid  th'  inclement  rulers  of  the  hour — 

When  Winter's  icy  minions  urge  their  pow'r — » 

In  that  dread  Seafon,  when  the  faline  force, 

Congeals  the  Baltic  and  arrefts  its  courfe  : 

When  favage  Boreas  begins  his  reign, 

And  pours  his  terrors  on  the  heaving  main  ; 

Howling  terrific  in  the  murd'rous  rale  ; 

To  fcare  the  Mariner,  and  rend  his  bellying  fail  j 

It  is  a  recorded  truth,  that  this  meafure,  which  the  ariftocrats  fo  vehe- 
mently reprobate,  originated  with  their  own  body,  during  that  delufion  of  the 
national  mind,  when  they  had  confidcrable  influence.— It  was  propofed  by  the 
legiflature  of  Vermont,  and  fupported  and  recommended  by  the  legiilature  of 
Maflachufetts  :  Yet  thofe  gentlemen,  who  fanclioned  this  alteration  in  the 
Conftitution,  four  years  ago,  when  "a  mifchievous  perverfion  of  the  national 
wiil,  was  only  probable  ;  have  now  fulminated  againft  its  adoption,  although 
the  mifchief  has  been  experienced  ! 

We  have  heard  it  loudly  advanced,  that  this  amendment,  is  calculated  to 
make  Mr.  JefFerfon,  Prefident  for  Life  :  If  it  were  poffible  that  this  great  mau 


j  BE  HAMILTONIADd 


Rebut  him,  way-worn,  from  the  port  of  Eaffc, 

And  hurl  rum  backward  throucrh  the  roarins  leas 

While  love-lorn  Mary,  looks  with  tearful  eyes, 

And  pitying  Vv  freights  the  wind  with  figks 

When  the  Balance  revel  in  the  floods  ; 

"When  the  gaunt  wolf  wakes  Echo  in  the  woods, 

And  bays  the  fdver  Recent  of  the  ni<>ht, 

Who  flitters  through  the  concave  of  the  fi^lit  ! 

When  Seamen  ftiver  at  the  hollow  bhfl, 

While  the  fnow  gathers  round  the  thick' i:ing  maft-^-' 

When  Bacchanals  uplift  the  flowing  bowl, 

To  elevate  the  functions  of  the  foul  ; 

Thaw  the  cold  juices  of  the  gelid  bfeaft  ; 

And  welcome  tipfy  Revelry,  and  Jeft.— ^ 

could  be  fall"- to  his  moment r>us  trufl,  It  is  not  this  amended  provLGon, thar 
could,  in  any  degree  affift  him  in  a  re-ele£lion  : — His  official  fupport  is  depen- 
dent on  the  approbation  of  his  grateful  country  ;  and  this  proceeding  only 
operates  to  make  the  path  of  duty,  fo  clear,  between  the  people,  and  the  ob- 
jects of  their  envied  favor,  that  no  art,  no  Jefuitiim,  in  future,  can  torture,  or 
fufpend,  or  mifdirect,  the  popular  inclination. — Mr.  Jeflerfon  now  refts,  more 
decidedly,  upon  his  ahilhy  and  patriotic  n,  than  heretofore  ;  rnd  no  eledtor  can 
objecT:  to  the  alteration,  who  has  difcernment  ;  nor  any  candidate  for  the  pri- 
mary honors  of  the  State,  who  is  confeious  that  his  integrity  directs  hit 
action. 

Southern  Influence. 

THE  tory  bloodhounds  have  been  long  yelping  upon  the  dangers  that  may 
arifc  from*  f*rtgt)aa  or  Southern  Influence',  and  to  give  colouring  to  this  ideal  peril* 
the  have  had  rec.ouife,  as  uuial,  to  the  moil  flagrant  and  bitter  untruths  :  But 
even  the  letter  of  their  infamy,  o'n%this  defpicabie  theme,  is  nothing,  when  com- 
pared with  the  deep  villainy  that  feeds  their  motives.  Their  aim  is  thoroughly 
diabolical,  and  gees  not  only  to  a  reparation  of  the  eaftern  from  the  fouthern 
ftates,  but  to  create  a  civil  war  !  to  introduce  the  molt  deadly  antipathies  in 
fociety,  and  cut  the  knot  of  amity  afunder  forever  I  Yet  thefe  mifcreants 
have  the  audacity  to  call  themielves  Fedcialifls  t  Good  Heaven  forefend  us 
from  the  pcrridy  of  thefe  untraceable  and  cruel  men,  before  whofe  limitlefs 
and  unnatural  ambition  ail  the  gentle  conliderations  of  the  bofom,  and  all  the 
nobler  afrecnons  which  fpring  from  the  love  of  our  country,  fall  away  and  be-' 
come  cxaaea.  Their  have  dared  to  lift  the  parricidal  arm  againft  the  folemn 
Compact  of  our  brotherhood,  our  ftrength,  and  our  glory.  They  would  chacc 
the  fympathies  from  our  nature,  and  enthrone  the  furies  in  the  heart  :  they 
furego  the  ccmfoling  beatitudes  of  their  God, 

And  /-west  Religfott  malt,  a  rbapfoJy  of  ivordf.' 


THE   HAM  XL  TON  IAD. 


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\yhen  GofTips  huddle  near  the  crackling  fire, 
To  prate  of  Ghofls  and  incantations  dire  : 
How  Witches  blight  the  harveft  as  they  lift, 
And  ride  on  befoms,  through  the  clammy  rnift  5 
Of  Wizards'  talifmans,  and  ills  they  wrought, 
Till  the  Senfe  fears  the  image  of  tfie  Thought  ! 
When  the  keen  fleet  makes  puny  Travellers  flgh— 
When  wild  geefe  fcream,  erratic,  through  the  fky — 
When  Farmers,  for  their  kine,  break  up  the  brook — 
When  Crickets  chirrup  from  the  fmoky  nook — 
\yhen  the  Vermont er  yokes  his  wheellefs  cart, 
And  feuds,  with  ven'fon,  down  to  Bofton  mart  : 
When,  round  the  blazing  hearth  gay  groupes  incline, 
To  munch  their  ihacr-barks  and  to  mull  their  wine  : 

o 

We  will  now  examine  this  aflertion,  by  the  inconteftible  evidence  of  facts, 
and  prove  that  thefe  bafe  aiperlions  on  the  government  are  not  only  without 
foundation  but  palpably  wicked  and  unjuft.    Prelident  Jefferson  has  mani- 
fefted  a  candour  in  his  nominations  to  office,  which  reflects  dignity  on  his 
judgment.    He  has  difdained  to  be  fwayed  by  a  partiality  for  any  particular 
State,  in  his  enquiry  after  integrity  and  talent,  but  has  generoufly  inverted  thofe 
with  authority  whofe  fitnefs  warranted  the  meafure.    Afluming  the  Potomack 
as  a  central  line  of  the  Union,  we  fhall  difcover  that  his  enemies  have  elevated 
his  character  for  impartiality,  by  provoking  this  inveftigation  ©f  his  difcernment 
and  liberal  nature.    He  has  indulged  no  local  prejudices  at  the  expence  of  his 
country's  honor  or  fecurity  ;  his  ways  have  been  the  wavs  of  wifdom,  and  his 
«paths  the  paths  of  peace.    In  our  opinion  he  has  carried  a  tolerance  of  offence, 
in  fome  inftances,  too  far  :    no  man  fhould  be  permitted  to  enjoy  an  official 
ftation,  under  a  mild  government,  that  he  would  annihilate,  in  obedience  to  a 
Britifh  faction,  if  his  powers  were  equal  to  his  antipathies.    The  following  lift 
of  names,  acting  under  the  appointment  of  Mr.  Jefferlbn,  will  be  a  complete 
refutation  of  all  the  calumnious  roaring  about  an  excluding  fouthern  influence  : 
Northern. — Mr.  Dearborn,  (of  Maine)  fecretary  of  war. — Mr.  Lincoln,  (of 
Mafl.)  attorney-general. — Mr.  Bowdoin,  (of  Mail)  appointed  minifter  to  Spain. 
— General  Hull,  (of  MafT.)  governor  of  the  new  territory  of  Michegan. —  Mr. 
Granger,  (of  Conn.)  pofimafter-general. — Mr.  Livingflon,  (of  New-York)  for- 
eign ambaiTador. — Mr.  Armftrong,  (of  do  )  do. — Mr.  Gallatin,  (of  Pcnn.)  fecre- 
tary of  the  treafury. — Mr.  Smith,  (of  Mar.)  fecretary  of  the  navy. 

Southern. — Mr.  Madifon,  (of  Virg.)  fecretary  of  State. — Mr.  Monroe,  (of  do.) 
foreign  ambafiador, — Mr.  Pinckney,  (of  S.  C.)  do.—  Mr.  Tucker,  (of  do.)  treaf- 
urer  of  the  United  States. — Mr.  Claiborne,  of  (M.  T.)  governor  of  Louifiana 
pro  tern. 

Thefe  are  the  principal  offices  at  the  difpofal  of  the  Prefident  ;  of  the  minor 
officers  a  majority  are  federal.  "  The  officers  of  the  navy,  alfo,  are  in  a  large 
proportion  from  the  Northern  States,  and  the  fame  party.    All  this  {hows  that 


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THE  HAMILTON  IAD. 


When  the  North  Gale,  in  whittling  wrath,  appears, 

And  bites  the  fclvidges  of  Yankcy  ears  : 

When  the  vaft  hills  are  whiten'd  o'er  with  (now — 

When  Graziers  lied  their  ricks  from  fens  below — 

When  Darkncfs  circumfcribcs  the  cheerlefs  day — 

When  Fifties  wriggle  from  the  fnow-fraught  bay — 

When  vifcid  Serpents  burrow 'd,  in  a  heap, 

In  interfecting  curves,  fraternal  fleep  : 

When  bell-deck'd  horfes  draw  the  rapid  fleigh, 

O'er  beds  of  ice  (beneath  pale  Cynthia's  ray) 

To  Pleafure's  midnight  haunts,  where  Beauty  throws 

Her  fears  aiide,  and  dances,  fips.and  glows  ! 

When  fhrinking  Toil,  collapfing  in  the  air, 

Lights  his  fegar  and  puils  away  defpair — 

the  Ad  mini  fixation  are  not  aiming  at  a  preponderance  of  local  influence  :  be* 
fides,  the  owners  of  the  funds  are  moftly  within  the  north,  and  yet  the  louthcrn 
members  of  congrefs  have  in  every  inftance  promoted  the  credit  of  the  public 
flocks. — But,  above  all,  the  fecretary  of  the  fenate  is  a  citizen  of  Bofton.  This 
department  of  the  National  Legiflature  is  the  depoiit  of  the  fecrets  of  govern- 
ment. If  then  the  fouthern  members  had  any  thing  of  a  private  nature,  which 
ought  not  to  be  declared,  would  they  give  their  votes  for  Mr.  Otis,  the  father 
of  a  man  who  is.outrageous  in  his  oppofition  ?  It  is  evident  they  truft  to  hij 
honor  and  their  own  integrity.  Either  the  fecretary  muft  know  improper  con- 
duel,  and  become  an  agent  in  the  tranfactioo,  or  his'fon  fhould  be  reproved  for 
his  defigns  to  excite  a  jealoufy  between  the  ftates." 

"  Virginia  Dcminaticn  has  become  a  cant  phrale  among  the  fed:ralijls  of  New-* 
England.  As  the  Prelident  of  the  United  States  belongs  to  Virginia,  and  that 
State,  being  the  oldefl:  and  largeft  in  the  Union,  and  almoit  unanimous  in  favor 
of  the  republican  caufe,  has  of  courfe  a  leading  influence  in  our  national  coun- 
cils, it  has  become  a  principal  but  very  defpicable  object  of  the  oppolition,  to 
excite  againft  them  the  prejudice,  rivalfhip  and  envy  of  the  northern  flates, 
particularly  MafTachufetts,  the  largeft  (tate  in  New-England.  Eefore  we  fufFer 
ourfelves  to  be  influenced  by  thefe  infidious  arts,  let  us  review  the  conduct  of 
our  Virginian  brethren,  while  MafTachufetts  and  Virginia  coincided  in  politics. 
To  avoid  all  mi  flake  and  difpute  about  facte,  we  will  take  the  flatements  of  an 
impartial  Hiftorian,  Dr.  Ramsay. 

The  Parliamentary  claim  of  a  right  to  tax  the  Colonies,  was  the  very  point  of 
our  Revolutionary  conteft,  and  the  Jlamp  c£l  in  1765,  was  the  memorable  occa- 
uon  of  bringing  the  principle  to  a  virtual  admifJion  or  determined  oppofition. 
"  On  its  being  fuggefted  from  authority,  fays  the  Ilifrorian,  that  the  (lamp  ofii- 
cers  would  not  be  fent  from  Great-Britain  ;  but  felecled  from  among  the 
Americans,  the  Colony  agents  were  defired  to  point  out  proper  perfons  for  tliD 
purpofe.  They  generally  nominated  their  friends,  which  affords  a  prefumptive 
proof,  that  they  fuppefed  the  act  would  have  gone  down.    In  this  opinion  they 


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When  Strength  perceives  the  iflue  of  his  breath— 
When  bank*-Iodg'd  Swallows  doze  in  demi-death—- > 
When  Matrons  knit  their  hufbands*  fleecy  hole — 
When  mucus  dribbles  from  the  froft-night  nofe  ! 
In  that  inclement  hour,  when  Day  grew  blind, 
And  Somnus  throws  narcotics  to  mankind  : 
Clogg'd  with  the  poppies  of  Lethean  fleep, 
The  Faction  flumber'd  and  forgot  to* — weep  ! 
Each  hand  withheld  from  throwing  Fortune's  dice, 
Rofpite  from  mifery,  and  woe  and  vice  : 
The  ides  of  March  the  fourth  were  all  forgot, 
And  their  what  was,  abforb'd  in-*— what  is  not  ! 
Gaunt  Envy  ceas'd,  immortal  men  to  hoot, 
And  even  Slanders  foamv  tongue  was  mute. 

were  far  from  being  being  lingular.  That  the  colonifls  would  be  ultimately 
obliged  to  fubmit  to  the  Jlamp  aci  was  at  firfl  commonly  believed,  both  in  -Eng- 
land and  America.  The  framers  of  it,  in  particular,  flattered  themfelves  that 
the  confufion,  which  would  arife  upon  the  difufe  of  writings,  and  the  infecurity 
of  property,  which  would  refult  from  ufing  any  other  than  that  required  by 
law,  would  compel  the  colonies,  however  reluctant,  to  uie  the.  flamp  paper, 
and  confeq'uehtly  to  pay  the  taxes  impofed  thereon.  They  therefore  boafled 
that  it  was  a  law  which  would  execute  itfelf.  By  the  terms  of  the  Jemp  ail,  it 
was  not  to  take  effect  till  the  firfl  day  of  November,  a  period  of  more  than 
feven  months  after  its  pafJQng.  This  gave  the  colonics  an  opportunity  for 
leifurely  canvaffing  the  new  lubject,  and  examining  it  fully  ou  every  fide.  In 
the  firfl  part  of  this  interval,  flruck  with  aftoi>iihinent,  they  lay  in  filent  con- 
flernation,  and  could  not  determine  what  courfe  to  purine.  By  degrees  they 
recovered  their  recollection.  Virginia  led  the  way  in  eppo/ition  to  the  Jlamp  a£i. 
Mr.  Patrick  Henry  brought  into  the  Houfe  of  Burgefles  of  that  colony  the 
following  refolutions,  which  were  fubftantially  adopted. 

RfilvcJ,  That  the  firfl  adventurers,  fettlers  on  this  his  majefty's  colony  and 
dominion  of  Virginia,  brought  with  them  and  transmitted  to  their  pofterity, 
and  all  other  his  majefty's  Subjects,  fince  inhabiting  in  this  his  majefty's  faid 
colony,  all  the  liberties,  privileges  and  immunities,  that  have  at  any  time  been 
held,  enjoyed  and  poffefled  by  the  people  of  Great-Britain. 

Mtfolvedy  That  by  two  royal  charters,  granted  by  king  James  the  firfl,  the 
colonies  aforefaid,  are  declared  and  entitled  to  all  liberties,  privileges,  and  im- 
munities of  denizens,  and  natural  fubjects,  to  all  intents  and  purpofes,  as  if 
they  had  been  abiding  and  born  within  the  realm  of  England. 

Refolded,  That  his  majefty's  liege  people  of  this  his  ancient  Colony  have  en- 
joyed the  rights  of  being  thus  governed  by  their  own  afiembly,  in  the  arti-. 
?le  of  taxes,  and  internal  police,  and  that  the  fame  have  never  been  forfeited* 


THE  HAM  J  L  TON  I  AD. 


'The  bright  ftars  twinkled  in  the  vaulted  fky  j 
Refponfive  Hogs,  were  grunting  in  the  fly  ; 
The  bark  lay  torpid  on  the  azure  wave  ; 
The  winds  were  hufli'd  in  th*  iEolian  cave  ; 
The  Gofiamer  was  chain'd,  and  all  at  reft, 
Except  the  Cyprian  boy  in  Chloe's  breaft. 

At  length,  the  Demon,  leagu'd  with  Hate  and  Care, 
Touched  each,  in  turn,  and  call'd  him  to  Dcfpair  : 
With  mudd'ring  fympathy,  and  op'ning  claws,  1 
The  Band  uprole,  in  a  Tartarean  noiie,  J- 
With  ennui  yawning,  till  they  crack'd  their  jaws  !  J 
They  cau,  in  ire,  their  glaring  eye-balls  round, 
And  fcqwPd,  and  fcar'd,  and  ftirugg'd,  and  moan'd 
and  frown' d  : 

*  Nox  crat  ;  et  placidum  carpebant  feffa  foporera 
Corpora  per  terras  ;   lilvrcque  et  feva  quierant 
JEquora  ;  cum  medio  volvuntur  fidera  lapfu  ; 
Cum  tacet  omnis  ager  ;  pecudes,  pictseque  volucres, 
Qua:que  lacus  late  liquidos,  quxque  afpera  dumis 
Rura  tenent,  fomno  pofitx  fuh  nodte  blenti 
Lenibant  curas  ;  et  corda  ohlita  laborum. 

At  non  infelix  animi  Phrcnifla  :  Vircil. 

Tous  ces  vers  eoulent  d'un  movement  prefque  infenfible  :  cliaque  phrafe 
a  fon  rcpos  :  et  I'on  y  fent  le  charme  du  fommeil.  Voyons  fi  Ton  retrouvt 
l'original  dans  la  copie  de  Voltaire. 

Les  aftres  de  la  nuit  rouloient  dans  le  filence  ; 
Kole  a  fufpendu  les  haleines  des  veuts  ; 
Tout  fe  tait  fur  les  eaux,  dans  les  bois,  dans  les  champs, 
Fatigue  des  travaux  qui  vont  bientot  renaitre, 
Le  tranquille  taureau  s'endort  avec  fon  maitre  ; 
Les  malheureux  humains  ont  oublie  leurs  maux, 
Tout  dort,  tout  s'abandonne  aux  charmes  du  repos. 
Phoeniffe  veille  et  pleure, 


or  yielded  up,  but  have  been  conftantly  recognized  by  the  King  and  people 
of  Britain. 

Refolded,  Therefore,  that  the  General  AfTembly  cf  this  Colony,  together  with 
his  majefty,  or  his  fubftitutes,  have,  in  their  representative  capacity,  the  only 
exclufive  right  and  power,  to  lay  taxes  and  imports,  upon  the  inhabitants  of 
this  Colony,  and  that  every  attempt  to  veffc  fuch  power  in  any  other  perfon  or 
perfons  whatfoever,  than  the  General  AfTembly  aforefaid,  is  illegal,  unconfhtu- 


THE  HAMILTON  I  AD. 


7* 


With  cank'ring  fangs,  all  grinding  to  moleft, 
They  humm'd,  like  Hornets,  brav'd  within  their  nefh 
Some  (hriek'd  their  woe  in  alt,  while  fome  were  harfh  j 
And  croak'd,  like  Bull-frogs,  in  the  difmal  marfh  : 
Some,  of  vail  bulk,  lay  poifon'd  by  Ill's  leaven, 
Like  proftrate  Titans,  who'd  offended  Heaven  : 
They  few  Perdition's  gulph,  black,  deep  and  foul, 
Till  the  pain'd  Sight  brought  terror  to  the  Soul  ; 
Some,  with  burft  hearts,  hung  penfive  o'er  their  knees  5 
While  others  felt  them  fhrivell'd  into  peas  : 
Many  fat  couchant  on  their  quiv'ring  hams, 
Entranc'd  with  apathy,  and  cold  as  clams. 
Some  perch'd,  prefumptuous,  mid  the  Tory  train, 
Blackguards  in  thought  and  act,  and  blood  and  grain  3 
Prompt  or  to  fwear,  or  lie,  or  (lab  or  run, 
And  unroof  Chapels,  in  the  noon-day  Sun  : 

tional,  and  urfjuft,  and  hath  a  manifeft  tendency  to  deftroy  Britiili,  as  well  as 
American  Liberty. 

Refdved,  That  his  majefty's  liege  people,  the  inhabitants  of  this  Colony,  are" 
noi  bound  to  yield  obedience  to  any  law,  or  ordinance  whatever,  defigued  to 
impofe  any  taxation  whatever  upon  them,  other  than  the  laws  or  ordinances  of 
the  General  AfTembly  aforefaid. 

ltefolvafi  That  any  perfon,  who  fliall,  by  fpeaking  or  writing,  afTert  or  main- 
tain, that  any  perfon  or  perfons,  other  than  the  General  Affembly  of  this  Colo- 
ny, have  any  right  or  power  to  impole  or  lay  any  taxation  on  the  people  here, 
fliall  be  deemed  an  enemy  to  this  his  majefty's  colony. 

Upon  reading  thefe  Resolutions,  the  boldnefs  and  novelty  of  them  afTe<Tted 
one  of  the  members  to  fuch  a  degree,  that  he  cried  out,  "  Treafon  !  Treafon  I'! 
They  were,  nevertheless,  well  received  by  the  people,  and  immediately  for- 
warded to  the  other  provinces.  They  circulated  exteniivcly,  and  gave  a  fpring 
to  all  the  difcontented.  Till  they  appeared,  moft  were  of  opinion,  that  the  adl 
would  be  quietly  adopted.  Murmurs,  indeed,  were  common,  but  they  feemed 
to  be  fuch  as  would  foon  die  away.  The  countenance  of  fo  refpeclable  a 
Colony  as  Virginia,  confirmed  the  wavering,  and  emboldened  the  timid.  Op- 
pofition  to  the  ftamp  act,  from  that  period,  affumed  a  bolder  face.  The  lire  cf 
liberty  blazed  forth  from  the  Prefs  :  fome  well  judged  publications  fet  the 
rights  of  the  Colonifts  in  a  plain  but  ftrong  point  of  view.  The  tongues  and 
the  pens  of  the  well  informed  citizens  laboured  in  kindling  the  latent  fparks 
of  patriotifm.  The  flame  fpread  from  breaft  to  breaft,  till  the  conflagration 
became  general. — 1  Vol.  58. 

In  the  difpute  with  the  King  and  Parliament,  Maflachufctts  took  an  a<5Uvc 
part.    Riots  enfued,  ia  conference  of  which  both  Houfes  of  Parliament,  by 


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Mifcrcants  who'd  fatten  in  immoral  wai's, 
Who'd  tear  the  Decalogue  to  light  fegars  ! 
Who'd  wade  in  carnage,  for  a  demi — price, 
Minions  of  Guilt,  and  pioneers  of  Vice. 
Fed  poune'd  on  Fed,  and  brother  taunted  brother, 
Spitting,  like  roafting  apples,  at  each  other  ; 
'Twas  you're  half  Democrat,  with  freedom  cramm'd  ; 

And  you,  are  trimming,  Sir,  and  you  be  d  d  ! 

Tlfil  P  G  thus,  in  irregular  ftrains, 

Slaver'd  out  his  refentment  and  pictur'd  his  pains  : 
Take  the  Sun  and  the  Moon  from  the  day  and  the 
night, 

Draw  the  Earth's  mail)  linch-pin — AboJifh  Delight  : 
Should  the  Fifh  cleave  the  feas,  or  Birds  chirp  in 
the  air, 

While  M  n  fills  my  official  chair  ? 

an  addrefs,  requeued  his  majefty  to  take  meafurcs  for  tranfpofting  every  inhab- 
itant of  Maffachufetts  Bay,  whom  the  Governor  might  fufpeel  to  be  guilty  of 
Treafon,  in  order  that  he  might  be  tried,  "  within  the  realm  of  Great-Britain, 
purluant  to  the  provifion  of  the  Statute  of  the  3/J  of  King  Henry  the  8th." — 
The  Legislature  of  Maffachufetts,  againft  which  the  meafure  was  immediately 
aimed,  was  not  in  fefiion.  The  Houfe  of  Burgefies  of  Virginia  met  foon  after 
official  accounts  of  it  reached  America  ;  and,  confidering  the  caufe  of  their 
filler  fhte  of  Maffachufetts  a  common  caufe,  fet  another  fpirited  example  of 
oppofuion,  by  Refolving  (among  other  things)  **  that  all  trials  for  treafon,  of 
for  any  other  crime  whatsoever,  committed  in  that  Colony,  ought  to  be  before" 
his  majefty's  courts  within  the  faid  Colony  ;  and  that  the  feizing  any  perfon 
refiding  in  the  faid  Colony,  fufpecled  of  any  crime  Whatfoever,  committed 
therein,  and  fending  fuch  perfon  to  places  beyond  the  fea  to  be  tried,  was  high- 
ly derogatory  of  the  rights  of  Britifh  fubjects."  The  next  day,  adds  the  Hifto- 
rian,  Lord  Botetourt,  the  Governor  of  Virginia,  fent  for  the  Houfe  of  Bufgeffe* 
and  addreffed  them  as  follows  :  "  Mr.  Speaker,  and  Gentlemen  of  the  Houfe 
of  BurgeffeB,  I  have  heard  of  your  Refolves,  and  augur  ill  of  their  effects.  You 
have  made  it  my  duty  to  uiiTolve  vou,  and  vou  are  diffclved  accordingly." — 
1  Vol.  83. 

The  Parliamentary  duty  on  Tea  was  afterwards  laid,  and  oppofed  on  a  fun- 
damental principle,  as  to  the  right  of  Parliament  to  tax  the  Colonies.  In  this 
oppofition  a  quantity  of  Tea,  belonging  to  the  Eaft-India  Company,  was  de- 
ftroyed  in  Bolton  harbour.  In  conl'equence  of  which  an  act  of  Parliament  was 
paffed,  for  flopping  the  trade  and  blocking  up  the  harbour  of  Bofton.  On 
this  Subject  the  Hifiorian  obferves,  "  The  patriots  who  had  hitherto  guided  the 
helm,  knew  well,  that  if  the  other  colonies  did  not  fupport  the  people  of  Bof- 


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Thence  I  batter'd  at  Freedom,  with  Pitt  for  my  guide. 
While  L — st — n  and  H — m — N  flank' d  on  each  fide  ; 
There  we  plann'd  focial  ills  that  admit  of  no  cure, 
And  made  poor  ftruggling  France,  a  vile  caricature  ; 
Rais'd  taxes  and  armies  to  coax  and  alarm, 
And  with  rank  T iry  pus  touch'd  the  Federal  arm  ; 
Strove  to  fncer  down  all  good,  and  were  riding  poft 
hafte, 

When  the  thunders  of  God,  laid  our  infamy  wafte  ; 
Awful  JufHce  uprofe,  and  furveying  the  evil, 
Kick'd  our  factious  Cabal,  and  their  plots  to  the  Devil  1 
Now  I  feel  as  perturbed  as  tides  'neath  the  Moon, 
Or  a  Dollar  ramrn'd  down,  for  a  voyage  to  Canton  i 
Or  an  Iberian  Bull  in  the  murderous  ring  : 
Or  Love  in  the  fuds,  or  a  Pig  in  a  firing  : 

ton,  they  mud  be  cruflied,  and  it  was  equally  obvious,  that  in  their  coercion 
^  precedent,  injurious  to  liberty,  would  be  eftablifhed.  It  was  therefore  the 
intereft  of  .Bolton  to  draw  in  the  other  colonies. — It  was  a'fo  the  intereft  of  tha 
patriots  in  all  the  colonies,  to  bring  over  the  bulk  of  the  people,  to  adopt  fuch 
efficient  meafures,  as  were  likely  to  extricate  the  inhabitants  of  Bofton  from  tha 
unhappy  fituation  in  which  they  v/ere  involved.  To  effect  thefe  purpoies  mucli 
prudence  as  well  as  patriotifnl  was  neceflary.  The  other  provinces  were  but 
remotely  affected  by  the  fate  of  Maflachufetts.  They  were  happy,  and  had  pg 
caufe,  on  their  own  account,  to  oppol'e  the  government  of  Great  Britain.  That 
a  people  fo  circumftanced  fhould  take  part  with  a  diftrefled  neighbour,  at  the 
rii'que  of  incurring  the  refentment  of  the  mother  country,  did  not  accord  with 
the  felfiik  maxims,  by  which  States,  as  well  as  individuals,  are  ufually  governed 
The  ruled  are,  for  the  molt  part,  prone  to  fuffer,  as  long  as  evils  are  tolerable, 
and  in  general  they  muft  feel,  before  they  are  roufed  to  contend  with  their  op- 
preiTors  ;  but  the  Americans  acled  on  a  contrary  principle." — 1  Vol.  1  IS. 

"  In  Virginia  the  Houfe  of  Burgefie3  on  the  26th  of  May  J  774,  refoived,  that 
thefirft  of  June,  the  day  on  which  the  operation  of  the  Bo/ion  Port  Bill  was  to 
commence,  fhould  be  fet  apart  by  the  members  as  a  day  of  fafting,  humiliation 
and  prayer,  devoutly  to  implore  the  divine  interpolation,  for  averting  the  Ixeavy 
calamities  which  threatened  deft-ruction  to  their  civil  rights,  and  the  evils  of  a 
civil  war — to  give  them  one  heart  and  one  mind,  to  oppofe  by  ah  juft  and  prop- 
er means,  every  injury  to  American  rights."  On  the  publication  of  this  Refolu*' 
lion,  the  Royal  Governor,  the  Earl  of  Dunmore,  diftblvcd  them.  The  members, 
notwithstanding  their  diflblution,  met  in  their  private  capacities,  and  figned  an 
agreement,  in  which,  among  other  things,  they  declared,  "  that  an  attack  made 
on  one  of  their  filter  colonies,  to  compel  fubmilCon  to  arbitrary  taxes,  was  an 
attack  made  on  all  Britith  America,  and  threatened  ruin  to  the  rights  of  all,  un- 
lefs  the  united  wifdom  of  the  whole  be  applied." — 1  Vo).  1 18. 

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Or  a  Knave  with  the  ftripes  of  a  flern,  civic  whippcr, 
Or  a  Cod  on  the  hook  of  a  Marblehead  fkippcr. 
Wifdom's  render'd  the  halters  of  Cruelty  noofelcfs  : 
Now,  like  Cats  in  new  buildings,  our  talons  are  ufelcfs  : 
Some  arc  fick — foine  cafhier'd  and  from  duty  exempt, 
Or  hung  upj  like  torn  Coats,  on  the  pegs  of  Contempt ! 
With  a  iing'd  paw,  like  Lolly's  duclile  Cat, 

The  bcardlefs  Star-Gazer  of  S  d  fat  ; 

Hammering  Lies  ! — Like  Vulcan  at  his  fire, 
Bcgrim'd  with  filth,  and  recking  with  his  ire  : 
More  fubtle  Cati'unc.^  in  {hade,  behind, 
Led  the  hot  forge,  or  raL'd  th'  inflaming  wind  i 
He'd  fafliion'd  the  tenth  Lie,  with  fkill  profound^ 
When  Hell's  infernal  Tenants,  crawPd  around  •> 

This  was  the  fecond  time  tlic  houfe  of  Burgeflcs  incurred  the  difpleafure  of 
their  royal  Governor,  and  were  dilToived  for  fupportiug  their  brethren  of 
JvIafTacliukt^. 

In  thofe  days,  as  well  as  lately,  Virginia  took  a  leading  influential  part  in  the 
republican  caufe,  and  a&ed  with  union,  energy  and  fuccefs.  But  did  the  citi- 
zens of  Bolton — did  the  inhabitants  of  MatTachuferts — did  the  people  of  New 
England  then  complain  of"  VWgua*  Domination  There  was  the  fame  caufe  for 
fuch  complaints  then,  as  now.  And  they  were  indeed  made. — Yes,  Hutchifon, 
Bartuiid,  and  other  royalifb  and  tories,  at  that  day,  made  fubftantiahy  the  fame 
complaints  of  Virginia  influence,  as  the  fedcralijis  do  at  prefent.  But  the  iv/jigs, 
particularly  of  Maifachufetts,  cooperated  with  their  brethren  of  Virginia.  "  In 
the  beginning  of  March  1 773,  the  Houfe  of  BurgefTes  appointed  a  committee  of 
eleven  perfons  who  fhould  maintain  a  correfpondence  with  her  "  fitter  colonies," 
on  all  the  fubje(£ls  which  related  to  the  common  caufe. — It  was  on  this  occafion, 
that  the  legislature  of  Mafiaehufetts  paid  a  juflr  tribute  of  refpect  to  the  exertions 
of  the  Virginians.  They  came  to  feveral  Relblves.  and  were  careful,  in  the  firft, 
to  lpeak  highly  in  praife  of  Virginia.  Thev  appointed  a  committee  of  fifteen' 
members,  and  directed  them  to  "  prepare  a  circular  letter  to  the  Speakers,  re- 
queuing them  to  lay  the  fame  before  their  refpective  AfTemblies,  in  confidence 
that  they  will  comply  with  the  wife  and  falutary  refolves  of  the  houfe  of  Bur- 
gefTes of  Virginia."— Gord.  Hi/t  1  Vol.  224. 

A  Virginian  patriot,  the  illuttrious  Washington,  by  an  unanimous  appoint- 
ment, took  the  command  of  our  army,  and,  in  harmonious  concert  with  his 
brother  officers  and  fellow-foldiers  of  all  the  fiates,  conducted  it  to  a  fuccefsful 
and  glorious  iiTr.e.  Through  the  commander  in  chief,  Virginia  had  a  fuperior 
in  lue»CB  in  the  military  part  of  the  revolution. — But  that  circumftance  gave  the 
other  ftates  no  juft  caufe  of  complaint. 

A  momentous  crifis  in  our  Revolution  was  the  Declaration  of  Independence 
It  was  a  bold  but  necelTary  meafure.    The  public  mind  was  in  a  degree  prepar 


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In  horrid  extacy  they  faid,  or  fung  ; 
Can  one  fo  mifchievous,  be  yet  fo  young  ? 
Be  this  a  Fete  d'enfer,  grim  Moloch,  howls  ; 
Let  Io  Paa??,  charge  Perdition's  Souls  ; 
'Twixt  Sin  &  Shame,  a  new-fledg'd  Crime  is  tracM : 
'Tis  H — lb— t — m,  nrft  in  order  plac'd  ! 
The  old  Enormities  are  all  difgrac'd. 
Be  it  the  theme  of  fell  Tartarean  lays  : 
The  Machiavelian  Spirit  gives  it  praife  ! 

LulPd  from  thefe  fcenes  by  Sleep's  embalming  care  ; 
Then  rous'd  from  Slumber's  clutches  by  Defpair  ; 
The  legal  Prattler  (fond  of  a  debate) 
View'd  his  burnt  fingers,  and  thus  figh'd  to  Fate. 
Why  am  I  now  the  fhut  tie  cock  of  Life  ; 
The  point  of  Laughter,  and  the  germ  of  Strife  : 

ed  for  it  by  the  "  Common  Stnfj"  of  Mr.  Paine,  the  moft  popular  pamphlet  ever 
published  in  America.  But  the  firfl:  official  ftep  towards  it  was  taken  by  Vir- 
ginia. The  houfe  of  BurgefTes  of  that  ftate,  on  the  fifteenth  day  of  May  1776, 
when  there  were  prefent  one  hundred  and  twelve  members,  refoivecl  unanimwf- 
ly,  that  their  Delegates  fhould  be  inftructed  to  propolb  to  Congrefs,  that  the 
United  Colonies  be,  by  that  refpedtable  body,  declared  free  and  independent 
State?."  The  motion  was  accordingly  made,  June  7th,  by  Richard  Henry 
Lee,  one  of  their  Delegates  ; — and  another  of  them,  Thomas  Jefferson,  the 
chairman  of  the  committee  appointed  for  that  purpofe,  drew  the  Declaration 
Which  was  adopted  and  figned  July  4th,  1776. — Ramf.  Hif.  1  Vol.  32-1— Gordon  s, 
1  Vol.  84.  .     ■  ; 

The  articles  of  Confederation  proving  infufficient,  a  renovation  of  the  Confti- 
tution became  neceflary.  In  this  important  meafure,  alfo,  Virginia  had  the  hon- 
our of  taking  the  lead.  "  While  the  country,  fays  the  elegant  Hiftorian,  free 
from  foreign  force  and  domeflic  violence,  enjoyed  tranquillity,a  proportion  was 
made  by  Virginia  to  all  the  other  States  to  meet  in  Convention,  for  the  purpofe  of 
digeihng  a  form  of  government,  equal  to  the  exigences  of  the  Union  a — The  firfl 
motion  for  this  purpofe  was  made  by  Mr.  Madison,  and  he  had  the  pleafure  of 
feeing  it  acceded  to  by  twelve  of  the  States,  and  finally  to  ifTue  in  the  eftablifh- 
ment  of  a.  New  Conftitution,  which  bids  fair  to  repay  the  citizens  of  the  United 
States  for  the  toils,  dangers  and  wafles  of  the  Revolution."— Ram  fays  Kijhr*;v  % 
Vol.  341.  hi 

In  addition,  to  this  remark  ,of  the  Hiftorian,  it  may  be  obferved,  that  Mr. 
Madison,  being  a  member  of  the  General  Convention,  and  one  of  the  Commit- 
tee of  five,  who  fat  in  their  recefs,  is  faid  to  have  had  a  principal  agency  in 
drawing  the  Conftitution.  He  was  one  of  the  molt  prominent  advocates  forirs 
adoption  in  the  Convention  of  Virginia,  where  he  was  oppofed  by  the  celebrated 
Orator,  Mr.  Henry.  Afterwards,  in  the  firfl  Congrefs  under  the  new  govern- 
ment, he  moved  the  fubjeft  of  Amendments,  twelve  of  which  were  pvepofed 


THE   HAMIL  F0K1  AD. 


Why  have  you  fufter'd,  in  the  world  s  great  man. 
Contempt  to  hold  a  mortgage  on  my  heart  \ 
'Tis  not  bar-practice,  and  defcrves  no  fee  ; 
If  you  fay  'tis,  come  down  and  alk  old  The. 
Why  am  I  thus  encumber'd  with  diftrefs  ; 
Fd  make  you  jujiif],  if  you  were  lcfs< — 
WtfVe  other  Royalijls  more  dire  than  me, 
"Who  walk,  on  carpets,  to  eternity  ! 
Lo  !  Draco  fits  a  Tyrant  and  a  Judge, 
His  tone?  a  menace,  and  his  thought  a  grudge  . 
No  kindiy  fy mpathics  attune  his  age  : 
His  pulfes  quick'ning  only  in — his  rage  ! 
O'er  Freedom's  fons,  his  aching  eye-balls  roll, 
Hate,  in  his  breaft,  and  Treafon  in  his  foul  ; 

by  the  two  Houfes  cf  CongrcT;,  and  ten  of  them  ratified  by  a  conftitutional 
majority  of  the  State*.  Thole  amendments  both  improved  the  Couftitution, 
and  alii  rpCdfiJctted  a  large  proportion  of  the  citizens  of  the  United  States,  whd 
were  diiTwistied  with  the  ConCitution,  as  originally  adopted,  but  who  fromr 
that  time  ha.ve  been  mofl  fincerely  attached  to  it. 

General  Washington,  a  Virginian,  was  unanimcufly  elected  the  firft  Prefix 
dent  of  the  United  States  ;  and  he  felected  Mr.  Jefferson  for  the  confidential 
office  of  Secretary  of  State.  Upon  Mr.  JefFcrfon's  election  to  the  Prelidcncy, 
he  appointed  his  bofom  friend,  Mr.  Madison,  to  the  fame  office,  which  he  ha'4 
himfeif  holden  under"  Prefident  Wafhington. — The  adminifbration  receives  the~ 
cordial  fupport'  of' Virginia,  and  mofl  of  the  other  States. 

CiiiTitnt  of '  Xtxv-S.r.glaH.'i,  from  this  hiftorical  reyiew,  yem  fee  the  conduct  of 
Virginia,  on  the  momentous  quefbons  of  the  Stamp  Ac7  and  other  meafures  of 
the  Brhiih  Parliament  to  tax  the  Colonies,  the  Declaration  cf  Independence,  and  the 
r-ederal  Gmftitution,  and  alfo  in  relation  to  the  Parliamentary  attacks  upon  Maf- 
lachufetts  and  the  fufferings  of  the  town  of  Bofton.  As  a  State,  till  lately, 
aVTafrachutetta  harmonized  and  cooperated  with  her  in  the  common  caufe  of 
Liberty,  j  Her  politics  continue,  as  from  the  beginning,  Republican.  Her  mem- 
bers, her  union,  her  political  confiftency  and  coincidence  with  the  original  fen- 
ti menus  of  the  mafs  of  the  American  people,  give  her  new,  as  formerly,  great 
weight  .and 'influence  in  the  legiflative  and  executive  councils  of  the  nation. — 
Thc  deyiation  from  firft  principles,  and  a  common  policy,  has  been  on  cur 
part  :— As.  a  State,  we  have  been  divided,  alienated  and  oppofed  to  the  nation 
and  the  States  in  general,  and  have  thus  thrown  away,  for  awhile,  cut  national 
influence  ahd/confequence.  Inflead  of  retracing  our  fieps,  and  -regaining  out 
former  landing,  by  fair  means,  a  difappointcd,  defperate  faction  among  us  are 
endeavouring,  by  all  the  little  Anti-U'nfurrziwan  arts  in  their  power  to  excite  a 
State  jealouiy  againft  Virginia.  Of  all  poOIble  fchemes  of  oppefition  this  is  the 
mo  ft  ungrateful,  illiberal  and  mean  ;  and  as  fuch,  we  ought  indignantly  to 
frown  upon  it." — (  Plttvfeld^un.) 


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ft 


So  mean,  he'll  creep  for  favors,  through  the  rnire  ; 
Then  fpurn  the  Dolt,  that  fated  his  defire. 
The.  Furies  hail  him,  as  he  chills  the  day, 
And  Terror  fialks,  before  him,  on  his  way  :  ' 
A  Slave,  in  principle — an  active  Flaw  : 
A  Dog,  'mong  worthies,  and  a  Fiend,  in  law  : 
At  Death's  black  portal  the  worn  mifcreant  ftands  : 
With  tearful  eyes,  and  parricidal  hands  : 
While  Wifdom's  manacled,  and  Honor  weeps, 
He  prates  of  equity,  and  fays— he  fleeps  !  !  ! 
His  blood-ftain'd  fangs  made  Defolation  {tart  : 
And  Mercy  fhudder'd,  as  fhe  view'd  his  heart. 

Demi-fecluded  from  his  fallen  Peers, 
Thus  H.  G.  O.  exprefled  his  well-bred  fears  : 

Alexander.  Hamilton,  the  late  Oracle  of  Anglo- Fcderalifm,  in  a  Report 
made  as  Secretary  of  the  Treafury  in  1792,  gave  his  opinion  to  Congrefs,  that 
"  Ideas  of  a  contrariety  of  interefts  between  the  Northern  and  Southern  regions 
of  the  Union,  are  in  the  main  as  unfounded  as  they  are  mifchievous.  The  di- 
verfity  of  circamftances,  on  which  fuch  contrariety  is  ufually  predicated,  au- 
thorizes a  directly  contrary  conclufion.  Mutual  wants  conftkute  one  of  the 
ftrcngeft  links  of  political  connection  ;  and  the  extent  of  thefe  bears  a  natural 
proportion  to  the  diveruty  in  the  means  of  mutual  fupply. 

"  Suggestions  of  an  oppofite  complexion  arc  ever  to  be  deplored,  as  un- 
friendly to  the  fteady  purfuit  of  one  great  common  caufe,  and  to  the  perfect 
harmony  of  all  the  parts." 

Reader,  compare  thefe  fentiments  with  the  ravings  and  railings,  which  you 
read  and  heard  from  our  northern  Anglo- -ftdetaiifs  at  the  prefent  day,  againfc  the 
Southern  States  in  general,  and  Virginia  in  particular  ;  and  learn  what  a  mu« 
table  inconfiftent  thing  this  fed^ral'ifm  is  ! 

.  In.  the  fame  Report  Secretary  Hamilton  obferved  to  Congrefs,  the  disturb- 
ed ftate  of  Europe,  inclining  its  citizens  to  emigration,  the  requifite  workmen 
will  be  more  eafily  acquired,  than  at  another  time  ;  and  the  effect  of  multiply- 
ing the  opportunities  of  employment  to  thole  who  emigrate,  maybe  an  increase 
of  the  number  and  extent  of  valuable  acquisitions  to  the  population,  arts  and 
indiutry  of  the  country. 

To  find  pleafure  in  the  calamities  of  other  nations  would  be  criminal  ;  but 
to  benefit  ourfelves,  by  opening  an  afylum  to  thofe  who  fuller,  in  confequence 
of  them,  is  as  juftifiable  as  it  is  politic. 

In  conformity  to  thefe  juft  fentiments  a  naturalization  law  was  paffed,  under 
the  faith  of  which  foreigners  perfecuted  like  our  anceftors  in  their  native  coun- 
tries, emigrated  to  the  United  States.  In  the  progrefs  of  fedetalifm,  towards  an 
hereditary  fyftem,  as  one  of  the  means  of  changing  the  genius  of  our  govern- 
ment, in  order  to  accuftom  our  citizens  to  the  exercife  of  arbitrary  power  by 
dsg.-ees,  it  was  thought  advifeable  to  begin  with  foreigners  ;   for  which  pur- 


THE  HAMII/rONIAD. 


My  Allies  ficken — Baal  is  laid  low, 

And  ev'ry  month  creates  a  new-fledg'd  woe  : 

Were  but  their  functions  equal  to  their  phlegm, 

They'd  run  from  me,  who  cannot  run  from  them  : 

Each  Caucus  now,  I  reprobate  and  rue  ; 

Fd  ftart  an  alibi,  but  that  won't  do. 

Mefh'cl  in  the  Fed'ral  web,  I'm  leagu'd  to  work, 

Fve  worn  the  crefcent  and  muft  Ihield  the  Turk. 

W — rr — n  muft  drag  each  new-born  Feud  to  light, 

And  I  array  them  for  ftatiftic  fight  : 

Difreputable  toil  of  fell  diftrcfs, 

Thar/*  prais'd  by  few,  and  e'en  that  few  gets  lefs, 

Fd  publifh,  could  I,  and  without  a  fee, 

My  nollem  faBum  againft  Liberty  ! 

po*e,a  popular  clamour  was  railed  againft  them,  and  then  an  Alien  Afr  pafied, 
bv  which,  notwithflanding  the  national  faith  pledged  by  the  naturalization  law, 
fcnd  in  violation  of  the  eonfHtutional  right  of  Jury  trial,  the  Prelident  was  veft- 
cd  with  arbitrary  power  to  inflict,  banifhment,  without  indictment  or  trial,  at 
his  l'overeigu  will  and  pL-afure,  upon  any  aliens  whom  he  might  think  danger- 
ous, and  who  had  not  obtained  complete  naturalization.  The  political  tenden- 
cy of  this  meafure,  to  change  the  principle  of  our  conftitution,  was  artfully  at- 
tempted to  be  concealed  under  the  popular  hue  and  cry  raifed  againft  Aliens  by 
the  federal  partizans,  and  joined  in  by  thoufands  who  did  not  perceive  the  ob- 
ject 

The  venerable  and  virtuous  State  of  MafTachufetts  had  been  feledled  by  the 
enemies  to  equal  rights,  as  the  focus  of  ftatiftic  fedition.  It  was  her  Capital 
that  the  late  Gen.  Hamilton  defignated  as  "  the  head  quarters  of  Anti-republican 
principles  f  but  recent  honorable  events  have  proved  that  it  was  a  libel  on  her 
general  character.  She  might  be  deceived,  but  fhe  could  not  be  corrupted. 
The  infidious  foes  to  the  mild  principles  of  our  government,  have  employed 
every  means  to  feduce  her  from  an  obedience  to  her  own  declarations,  and  to 
cloud  her  intellect  with  mifreprefentation.  They  affected  to  deplore  an  en- 
dangered rtateof  religion,  which  had  no  exigence  but  in  idea  ;  while  they  were 
£.<£tually  deftroying  the  food  of  morals,  by  coarfe  detraction,  and  every  art  that 
falfehood,  malevolence  or  folly  could  fuggeft.  They  held  a  majority  of  the 
people  of  this  State,  in  an  ariftocratic  (lumber,  for  feveral  years,  by  continually 
adminiftering  deadly  opiates,  with  the  fuperfcribed  alluring  appellation  of  "  or- 
der and  good  govtrnment."  This  fatal  delufion  was  upheld  by  confummate  artifice 
and  incefTant  intrigue,  until  it  pleafed  Heaven  to  deflroy  this  unnatural  Anglo-tory 
endeavour,  by  the  means  which  they  had  adopted  for  its  fupport.  And  the 
"  Jlieping  Sanipfons"  have  at  length  awoke,  and  fhown  their  ftrength. 

In  the  plenitude  of  a  political  lunacy,  it  was  refolved  that  Mr.  Elv  of  Spring- 
geld  fhould  openly  move  for  a  violation  of  the  laft  governing  teftament  of 
Washington,  and  create  fuch  a  difficulty  between  the  Northern  and  Southern  ftates, 


THE  HAMILTONIAD. 


Bring  me  Medea's  kettle,  plunge  me  in  : 
Ah,  lave  thefe  royal  fpeckles  from  my  fkin  : 
How  fmall  the  error,  when  fuch  ills  commence  ! 
How  great  the  evil,  in  the  confequence  ! 
What's  a  palazzo,  but  the  bafe  of  Care, 
Unlefs  Content  fits  jocund  in  our  chair  : 
With  fparkling  virion  bleffing  Reafon's  bowl, 
And  op'ning  ev'ry  alley  of  the  Soul  ? — 
Yet,  though  oppofing  modes-  may  vex  the  hour, 
I  truft  Urbanity  will  keep  his  pow'r  -r 
To  harmonize  Ambition's  ruthlefs  fong, 
And  lead  refplendent  Charity  along. — 
Say,  fhall  the  attributes  of  Peace  be  o'er  ? 
Shall  focial  blandifhments  be  known  no  more  ? 

3s  would  contemplate,  on  its  becoming  a  law  of  the  land,  the  Dissolution  o» 
the  UNION'  ! — Though  every  inftitute  both  divine  and  human,  feemed  to 
forbid  the  meafure,  it  was  fqueezed  through  the  Legiflature  of  this  Common- 
wealth, by  a  majority  fo  limited  as  fcarcely  to  be  indicative  of  approbation. 
All  the  Republicans  were  alarmed,  and  the  moderate  federalifts  began  to  pon- 
der upon  the  disorganizing  boldnefs  of  the  proceeding.  The  fenlible  yeomanry 
argued  with  each  other  upon  the  mifery  that  was  in  perfpedtive  :  they  well 
knew  that  a  reciprocation  of  advantages  was  involved  in  the  pure  confervation 
of  the  Federal  Compact,  and  that  ail  and  every  State,  from  Saint  Croix  to  the 
JMiJpfippi,  were  bound  by  policy,  honor  and  humanity,  to  rcfift  this  terrible  in- 
road upon  the  common  good.  They  well  knew  that  New-England  was  the 
carrier  of  the  rich  produce  of  the  Southern  department  of  the  confederation, 
who  receive  through  the  the  Northern  ftates  the  produce  of  the  Indies  and  of 
Europe  ;  and  that  although  the  duties  to  the  government  are  firft  paid  here,  that 
the  confumer  ultimately  bears  the  weight  of  the  import.  They  know  all  this, 
and  confequently  faw  the  awful  danger  of  Mr.  Elt's  attempt  to  derange  the 
fyftem,  and  make  a  political  volcano  of  their  parent  State,  from  whence  the  de- 
structive fires  were  to  be  belched  forth  upon  her  affociated  Sifters  in  legiftatiou 
and  ftrength.  Their  apprehenfion  made  them  think  with  more  depth  and  pre- 
cifion  :  that  thought  awakened  their  duty,  when  they  immediately  clung  to 
firff  principles,"  and  expreffed  their  repugnance  to  the  propofed  innovation, 
by  giving  a  decided  majority  againft  the  promoters  and  friends  of  this  cala- 
mitous attempt. 

It  has  been  wittily  laid,  of  this  Mr.  Ely,  that  he  digefts  his  food  better  than 
he  digefts  his  ideas,  and  his  perfonai  weight  gives  to  this  obfervaticn  the  force 
of  an  acknowledged  truth  ;  but  his  mental  weight  would  not  authorife  an  un- 
qualified fufpicion  that  he  had  any  agency  in  the  formation  of  a  project,  which, 
if  carried  into  effect  commenfurate  with  the  defires  of  thcfe  who  gave  it  fufte- 
nance  if  not  birth,  might  convulfe  this  empire  from  Maine  to  Georgia,  If  once  a 
fanatical  fpirt  is  infufed  in  the  organic  mafs  of  elementary  principles  of  £he 


'THE   HAMILTON  IAI7 


Shall  the  prophane  and  vile,  from  Envy's  den,'  ■ 
Stand  on  a  parallel  with  radiant  men  ? 
.Shall  Rudenefs  execrate  Wit's  polifiYd  fong, 
Merely  that  blatant  Rudenefs  dare  be  wrong  f 
Forbid,  this  harfh  rcfult  to  be  endur'd  : 
In  this  kind  aim,  let  Party  be  abjur'd — 
A  Gentleman's  a  being  Gods  infpire, 
Beyond  the  vulgar,  and  of  purer  fire  ; 
Reproving  weakneffes  by  poignant  fenfej 
Never  offending — Slow  to  meet  oflcncc  : 
Either  Minerva  woos  him  to  be  kind  : 
One  nerves  his  arm,  the  other  nerves  his  mind  : 
Serenely  firm  he  lifts  his  awful  creft, 
And  Beauty  neftles  in  his  ample  bread  : 

American  commonwealth  ;  if  Northern  can  be  oppofed  to  Southern  influence,  hi 
battle  array  ;  if  geographical  limitations  can  excite  political  antipathies  ;  if  wc 
can  have  played  off,  in  America,  a  miferable  imitation  of  the  blue  and  %rcen  fac- 
tions in  Confhintinoplc,  as  they  have  been  eloquently  defcribed  by  the  luminous 
Gibbon — If  wc  are  to  have  the  fable  of  the  big  eudions  and  the  little  endions  of 
Laputo,  fo  happily  conceived  and  exqinfitcly  rold  by  Dr.  Swift,  unfortunately 
realized,  upon  the  fair  bofom  of  this  fplenduf  and  rifmg  nation  ;  if  confpira- 
tors,  in  their  caucufles  aud  clofeti,  are  hourly  iuffered  to  pollute  public  opinion, 
by  multitudinous  and  atrocious  falfehoods  ;  if  the  naufeating  tale  of  a  Virginia 
influence,  is  to  be  echoed  and  re-echoed  until  the  abominable  authors  of  this 
mod  infamous  and  chimerical  flauder,  almoft  believe  it  tcbe  true — why  then 
we  muftbid  adieu  to  our  wonted  repefe,  to  our  endearing  fympathies — to  pri- 
vate and  public  confidence — to  the  paternal  admonitions  of  Washington,  and 
to  the  order  and  harmony  of  our  political  fy  items,  where  each  and  every  por- 
tion of  territory  anfwers  and  accords  to  the  other,  and  the  wants  of  a  part,  are 
exuberantly  fupplied  by  the  induftry  and  talents  of  the  reft  :  So  ftands  Nevv- 
."Englahd,  in  relation  to  the  fouthern  ftates,  and  fo  ftand  the  fouthern  ftates  in 
relation  to  New-England.  Nor  can  one  planet  difappear  from  the  galaxy,  with- 
c?ut  ruin  or  confufion  to  its  dependent  fatellites. 

That  all  thefe,  and  many  more  and  worfe,  would  be  the  inevitable  confequen-' 
ces  of  Mr.  Ely's  motion,  if  thofe  who  firft  conceived  it,  could  be  gratified  in- 
their  wi flies,  we  have  no  doubt  :  but  we  have  a  doubt  whether  the  extreme  fo~ 
lidity  of  this  gentleman's  intellectual  organs  ever  did  or  could  admit  an  imprel- 
fion  adequate  to  the  extent  of  the  rrrifchief  involved  in  his  difaftrous  motion. 
The  Royal  FaSlion  are  alternately  defpairing  and  hoping,  wifhing  and  fearing  : 
one  day  trying  the  refult  of  one  wretched  expedient,  and  on  the  next,  of  another 
— following  circular  letters  with  pamphlets,  and  pamphlets  with  political  feftivals 
— decrying  Britifh  influence  in  public,  and  giving  it  force  and  currency  in  private  ! 
Tutored  in  machiaveliau  ftratagems  abroad,  and  infidioufly  difleminating  the  fame 
nratagems  at  home,  to  warp  the  public  mind  from  its  due  regards  for  civil  and 


THE  HAMILT1  ON  IAD. 


Si 


Giving  difdain  to  each  unhallow'd  fear  ; 

In  action,  noble — In  expreflion,  clear  : 

By  Delicacy's  mandate  taught  and  rais'd, 

He  fmooths  thofe  ethics  that  the  Schools  have  prais'd  ; 

(Like  the  involving  fluid  of  our  earth,) 

Throws  a  decorum  round  his  fpell-bound  mirth, 

That  limits  gladnefs  with  a  pure  controul, 

And  chains  the  effervefcence  of  the  Soul  ! 

That,  which  in  coarfer  fpirits  nurtures  pride, 

With  him  is  dignity  and  eafe  allied — 

Like  the  young  May,  mid  iiiuing  fweets,  he  rofe — 

His  mien  enhances  what  his  heart  beftows — 

Love  warms  his  pulfes  with  a  gen'rous  fire, 

While  Science  meathes  the  fury  of  defire  ! — 

religious  freedom  ;  to  give  to  the  citizens  forms  inflead  of  principles,  and  to 
teach  them  difhuftof  their  own  happinefs,  by  inhnuating  a  doubt  of  their  own 
political  fufficiency.-'-Such,  thefe  incendiaries  would  willi  the  people  to  become; 
tame  and  iniipid,  believing'  themfelves  to  be,  their  oton  •worft  enemies — like  the 
generous  lion  encaged,  at  once  the  fport  and  profit  of  his  keeper  ! — Thefe  are 
the  politics  and  their  effects,  fellow-citizens,  of  fuch  motions.  It  is  like  a  lignal 
to  battle,  or  like  the  morning  gun  which  announces  the  approaching  carnage 
of  the  dreadful  day  that  is  to  fucceed  the  explolion. 

When  Maffaehufetts  was  firfi  fettled,  every  circumftanee  in  Europe,  confpired 
to  give  a  Republican  tendency  to  the  primitive  inhabitants,  which  has  never 
been  interrupted  or  perverted,  from  its  natural  objedls,  the  peribnal  indepen- 
dence of  the  citizen,  and  the  fecurity  of  the  government. —  It  lias  been  a  mif- 
taken  idea,  cherifhed  by  Britiih  writers,  and  attempted, by  them,  to  be  impofed 
upon  mankind,  that  thefe  original  fettlers  were  ncurifhed  in  their  infancy,  by 
the  paternal  care  of  that  nation,  from  which  they  defcended  ;  the  contrary  ten- 
dency of  this  afTertion  is  too  clear,  however  to  be  difputed  ;  for  thefe  unhappy 
aliens  and  emigrants,  never  came  to  this  country  from  choice,  but  necefhtv,  and 
were  actually  difcharged  on  this  inhofpitable  foil,  bv  the  convulfive  efforts  of 
the  Britifh  nation,  when  the  lpirit  of  civil  and  religious  liberty,  was  in  the 
highefl  ftate  of  effervefcence  ;  bringing  with  them  an  indignant  fenfe  of  the 
wrongs  they  had  fufFered,  in  the  place  of  their  nativity  ;  outcaft  and  forlorn  : 
enraged  and  perfecuted,  they  fettled  here  as  in  a  place  of  refuge,  from  the  con- 
tempt and  hatred  of  their  oppreffors — agreeably  to  the  light  of  experience,  and 
thU  influence  of  the  political  knowledge  which'  they  then  poffeffed,  every  mea- 
fure  and  every  inftitution  became  republican,  from  their  natural  attachment  to 
that  caufe,  arid  to  thofe  principles,  which  produced  the  occaiion — The  hundred 
hills  of  Maffaehufetts  became  the  mons facer  to  thefe  determined  plebians,  who, 
however  very  unlike  the  Plebians  of  Rome,  never  could  be  perfuailed  again,  to 
be  corrupted  by  the  arts, or  enchained  by  the  force,  of  that  government,  which 
had  fyftematicaHy  galled  them,  by  every  means  in  their  powe*  ;  through  all  the 


THE   II AMILTONI  AD. 


He  thinks  of  man,  as  thofe  who've  frailties  ought, 
And  his  chaftc  language  dulcifies  that  thought — 
Calm  Pleafurc  breathes  her  influence  o'er  his  daya 
And  Virtue  hails  the  moral  of  his  lay  : 
A  Chriftian  hero,  and  the  foe  of  Strife, 
The  Have  of  Honor  and  the  grace  of  life  ! — 
The  wiles  of  Policy  mould  ne'er  efface 
That  cheap  fuavity  man  owes  his  race  ; 
Electric  charm,  that  keeps  the  Paflions  even, 
And  gilds  our  antics,  till  we  foar  to  Heaven  ! 

Like  Marias  peeping  through  Minturnian  reeds, 
Bcgrim'd,  yet  arrogant  with  daring  deeds, 
Crouch'd  royal  T — cv,  behind  Treafon's  bier, 
Warming  with  hate,  then  {havering  with  fear  : 

vaned  fecnes  of  political  hiftory,  it  appear?,  as  far  as  our  examination  has  reach- 
ed, that  the  People  of  this  ftate  may  be  deceived,  but  they  cannot  be  aijlaved. 

Alarmed  by  the  hardy  fpirit  of  thole  original  Republicans,  the  Britifh  ad- 
minhtration,  adopted  an  early  fvftem  of  rfplonage,  and  detached  numerous  emif- 
iaries,  to  feduce,  or  intimidate  the  People — among  theft,  one  Randolph  wa* 
confpicuous,  whofe  letters  may  be  found  in  the  third  volume  of  HuUhinfins 
Iiitlory  of  Maffachufetts  ;  thcie  letter?,  were  continued  from  Sept.  20,  in  167C, 
to  May  16th,  in  1681),  when  the  laft  of  them,  was  dated  in  the  Goal  of  Bofton  ! 
where  this  milcreant  had  been  confined,in  one  of  thofe  revolutionary  paroxifms, 
when  the  fovereign  people  of  this  State,  (always  vigilant  and  jealous  of  their 
privileges.)  took  the  liberty  of  vindicating  their  own  rights,  to  the  difcomliture 
of  the  guilty. — A  perufal  of  thel'e  letters,  in  illufbration  of  our  firft  pofiticn, 
would  demonftrate  the  perfect  fcorn,  with  which  every  occurrence  relating  to- 
New-Eugland  was  held  bv  this  courtlv  millionary  :  we  iliall  felecft  only  onein- 
ftance.  among  a  number,  taken  from  a  letter,  under  the  date  of  June  14,  1682  : 
in  this  letter  Randolph  has  averted,  as  follows,  "  the  firft  adventurers  are  eith- 
er all  dead,  or  their  children  driven  out  of  their  property,  by  their  fathers'  fer- 
Yams,  or  ell'e  they  have  become  fo  few  and  inconfiderable,  as  to  be  involved  in 
obfeurity  ;  and  a*  for  all  the  perfons,  concerned  ia  the  faftion  here"  for  fo  the 
inhabitants  of  New-England  have  been  invariably  Itigmatized  in  Great  Britain, 
**  I  know  but  one  man,  who  was  net  a  fervant,  or  a  Servant's  fon,  who  now 
governs  the  governor  and  the  whole  country." — Randolph  calls  the  people  of 
this  town  BoiLii^rs,  and  Ufurpcrs,  and  charges  them  with  a  defign  to  form  an  in- 
dependent Commonwealth,  denying  anv  appeals  to  Britain  ;  in  the  true  fpirit  of 
Britifh  policy  he  affects  to  treat  its  military  ftrength  with  deridon,  and  under- 
takes, with  500  of  his  Britannic  Majefty's  guards,  to  fubdue  and  drive  them 
from  the  Province,  as  he  proceeds  to  fay,  that  Mr.  Levereti,  is  the  only  old 
Soldier  in  the  Colony,  he  having  lerved,.  in  the  late  Rebellion,  under  Oliver 
Cromwell. 

All  theje  facts  go  to  prove  the  fpirit  of  their  ancefiors,  and  we  know  of  noth^ 


THE  HAMILTON  IAD. 


A  Faclictis  ague,  varying  his  woes  ; 
Infiam'd  at  noon-tide,  and  at  midnight  froze  ! 
Thus  the  man  murmur'd  : — Fortune,  pelt  of  Hell, 
Inconftani  wench — Ah  !  Horace  knew  thee  well, 
Til  fnatch  the  bandage  from  thy  darken'd  eyes  : 
Look  at  thy  Slave  ! — be  kind — for  once,  be  wife  : 
If  there  is  truth  in  Salhtji,  Catiline 
Was  but  a  partial  facriflce  of  thine —  . 
Survey  my  royal  friends,  thou  potent  witch  : 
Some  demi-damn'd,  while  fome  are  in  a  ditch  : 
Our  immature  Noblejfe,  from  Reafon  feud, 
Wriggling,  like  Tadpoles,  through  a  ftagnant  mud  : 

Lo,  where  his  Grace  of  Br  e,  maudlin  fits, 

Dead  to  young  Joy, — A  bankrupt  in  his  wits  : 

ing  that  can  demonflrate  any  change  among  thefe  Republicans,  from  that  de» 
termination  and  virtue,  which  their  Fathers  poffeffed  :  with  the  light  of  experi- 
ence then  blazing  before  our  eyes,  and  directing  our  courfe,  we  fmile  at  the 
idea  that  the  Republican  party  will  not  be  paramount  :  however  modified  or 
fuppreffed,  this  virtue  cannot  be  extinguifhed,  and  if  the  arts  of  Anglo  Federal- 
ifm,  could  bring  it  into  action,  woe  be  to  thofe  who  fhould  create  the  difficulty  ; 
the  firm  minority  of  33,000,  would,  in  fuch  a  crilis,  foon  become  the  majority, 
and  the  Republicans,  when  it  was "  their  cue  to  fight,"  would  not  want  a 
prompter. — Let  the  Tory  Journal*  then  boafi:  of  their  ftrength  in  this  ftate — let 
the  dozing  Sampfons,  in  their  cups,  charged  with  the  Falernian  grape,  pro- 
phane  the  religion  which  they  affect  to  venerate,  and  artfullv  infinuate  cp- 
po/ttion,  when  they  really  meditate  REBELLION,  in  order  if  poihble  to  effect  <-\ 
feparation  from  the  Southern  States  ! — But  let  them  recollect  that  they  are  at- 
tentively watched,  in  all  their  machinations,  and  if  they  ihould  once  dare  to  lift 
tbiir  parracidal  bands  againjl  the  pcacs  oftbeir  country,  the  lame  magnanimity  of  heart, 
which  of  old,  made  Randolph  and  Andros  prifoners,  (and  of  late,  cleared  this 
State,  of  the  worft  of  malefactors,  although  born  and  bred  in  its  bofom  ;)  if 
once  roufed  into  actiou,  would  loon  add  new  examples  to  the  catalogue  of  do- 
meftic  traitors,  and  make  them  as  execrable,  as  they  are  now  impotent. 

We  fay  again  that  the  People  of  this  State,  are  rapidly  awakening  to  a  du« 
fenfe  of  their  true  interefts,  and  that  no  man  in  it  dare  publicly  to  avoiv  a  ivijb  to 
dijf:ver  tbe  union — nor  will  all  the  fubtleties,  that  have  been  fo  induftrioufly  prac- 
tifed  to  renew  a  little  provincial  prejudice,  againft  the  filter  State  of  Virginia, 
ferve  any  oiher  purpofe,  but  that  «f  expofing  the  perpetrators  to  general  detef- 
tation,  when  the  point  is  rightly  underftood. 

It  is  no  lefs  honorable,  to  the  character  of  this  nation,  than  true,  that  in  that 
arduous  ftruggle  for  liberty  and  independence,  which  marked  the  American 
revolution,  there  never  was  the  leaft  difagreement  :  there  never  was  even  a 
fympton  of  jealoufy  among  the  ftates,  compoling  the  Original  Confederat 
noN.    Not,  that  the  Anti-revolutionary  faction,  vulgarly  called  the  Tory  Party , 


84 


THE  HAMILTQMIAD, 


Monarcliic  Raven  ! — Caufe,  without  effect  ; 
Like  prophet  Brothers,  he's  outliv'd  his  feci — 
Laid  up  in  ord'nary,  behold  his  Trunk, 
Gnaw'd  byCare's  worms, tho'  caulk'd  with£/7///Z>junk. 
His  topmaft  flruck — His  timbers  all  befpoke — 
His  cable  fnortcn'd,  and  his  anchor  broke  : 
Like  Attic  portals,  by  the  Gazer  fcen, 
His  ruin  merely  proving  he  has  been  ! — 

When  Sandy  fhiver'd  him,  ambition  fcowl'd  ; 
Folly  was  jubilant  and  Trcafon  howl'd  : 
Then  mammoth  Jefferson  rofc  up  to  pow'r  : 
Truth  rear'd  her  crelr,  and  Schifm  moan'd  our  hour ! 
Our  Faction's  awe-ftruck — Guilt  has  done  his  part  : 
Th'  arterial  blood  is  banifh'd  from  the  heart, 

bribed  by  foreign  gold  ;  feduced  by  foreign  influence,  or  corrupted  by  the  vain, 
illulory  hope,  of  advancing  their  private  fortunes  ou  the  ruin  of  their  country; 
did  nuc  practice  every  ainiiee,  without  regard  to  truth,  rcalon,  or  decency,  to 
W^k'en  the  (brings  of  oppg&tien  to  the  claims  of  the  Britilli  Government,  and 
to  IulFv)catc,  in  its  cradle,  the  herculean  infant  of  Liberty  j  which  even  then, 
alone  nnd  unprotected  in  the  aho -ruing  conflict,  cither  attracted  the  Dotice,  or 
excited  the  admiration,  of  the  wyfe  and  enlightened  in  every  part  of  Europe  ! 

The  idea  of  rival  or  contending  interefts  between  the  Gri:a  1  and  the  Little 
States,  had  not  then  an  exigence  :  or  if,  by  chance  fome  wretched,  mean  and 
hypocritical  milcreant,  but  hchtatingly  touched  this  ltring  of  national  dilcord, 
his  name  was  given  to  the  winds  of  heaven,  to  be  wafted  in  infamy  through 
every  part  of  the  union — Not  Galloiva^ — nor  Ilul.li/ifc/;,  not  the  verieft  Sycophant 
of  Britilh  power,  had  then  ventured  to  infift  upon  this  topic,  fo  fertile  of  the 
plagues  of  faction,  and  of  anarchy  ;  provided  it  could  have  obtained  a  refidcnce 
in  the  American  mind.  The  difcovery  of  this  imaginary  evil  was  referved  for 
a  more  tranquil  and  a  more  happy  period — It  is  Mr.  Tracy  of  Connecticut, 
and  a  few  benighted  followers  of  this  prophet  of  Sedition,  who,  in  the  fulnefs  of 
political  necromancy,  have  had  the  unrivalled  glory  of  conjuring  from  the 
£ulph  of  defpair,  this  horrid  demon  of  the  imagination. — In  the  progrefs  of  the 
Revolution,  Delaware  repoSed  in  fecurity,  by  the  fide  of  Pennfylvania  ;  Rbbdc- 
JJlan4  was  cherifhed  by  J\-Lf/J'.ul)if,t:s,a.ud  the  J^frys,  after  being  pillaged  by  the 
BritiSh.  mercenaries,  found  relief  in  her  more  populous  and  effective  neighbours 
— Local  boundaries  have  been  fixed  by  accident,  and  are  now  confecrated  by 
the  force  of  time  and  habit  :  and  it  is  only  on  the  nation's  will  and  power  : 
and  on  the  natural  and  constitutional  rights  and  interests,  of  the  States,  and 
of  the  individuals  who  compofe  them,  that  the  peace  and  profperity,  of  this  rif- 
iug  Republic,  is  built  and  eStabliShed  as  on  a  rock  ! — Away  then  with  this  mis- 
erable pretence  :  Away  then  with  this  infulting  distinction  of  the  Great  and 
Little  States, having  discordant  or  even  varying  interefts  : — The  Sovereign- 
ty of  each  is  equally  and  inviolably  guarded  aeajnfs  injury  or  dimiiiution  ;  end 
What  is  good  for  one  is  good  fer  ail, 


THE  HA  MILT  ONI  AD. 


The  G — w — ds  weep  and  doze,  but  cannot  think  : 
And  Tim,  his  Ilolinefs,  is  loft  in  drink: 

Bofton,  that  royal  hot-bed  of  the  States, 
Now  links  in  grief — now  menaces  the  Fates  : 
Ot — s,  mellifluous  Ot — s,  cannot  pleaie  : 
His  filves  accents  only  charm  the  Breeze  : 
The  flood  is  paft,  that  fed  our  moon-drawn  tide, 
And  Sorrow's  ebb,  reduces  mortal  pride. 
Regard  our  minions  perifhing  by  fcores  ; 
The  Party's  onals  rot  on  Freedom's  (hpfes  ! 

The  gentle  G — rn— r,  in  tears  came  next, 
Becloath'.d  in  fables,  fuiky,  fad  and  vext, 
Eager  to  prattle — A  meek,  kindly  foul  j 
In  his  right  hand  he  nouriuYd  forth  a  fcroli  : 

This  project  of  clTacing  the.befr.  and  wifeft  provifions  of  the  ConfHtution,  Is  a 
new  thing,  that  was  engendered,  in  fecret,  and  caH  fnftantaneoufly  upon  our 
aftonillicd  fenfes  ! — It  burft  upon  us,  like  a  black,  terrific  cloud,  at  noon  day, 
obtruding  upon  the  beautiful  funfhine,  and  clear  atnuifphere,  furcharged  with 
all  the  elehientsof  deftrucYion. — A  Guv  Fawkes  was  found  to  blow  ns  into  the 
air,  with  all  the  fettled  orders  of  the  State  :  our  peace  and  union  and  glory,  our 
funds  and  credit,  both  public  and  private  :  our  conliflency,  our  character,  our 
laws,  our  fecurity,  and  our  love  for  each  other,  were  to  be  facrificed  in  this  novel 
explolion  !  for  cut  of  this  dreadful  project  every  evil  might  arife,  but  certainly, 
no  benefit,  either  to  the  Union,  the  particular  States,  or  the  individual  Citizens  ? 

Let  us  try  the  public  mind,  upon  the  chord  of  intereft. — There  are  14,000 
public  creditors,  and  500b  of  ihofe  belong  to  MafTachufctts,  which  owns  more 
of  the  public  debt,  than  Delaware,  Maryland,  Virginia,  N.  Carolina,  S.Carolina. 
Georgia,  TenneiTee,  Kentucky,  Ohio  and  Mifiifippi  ! — Should  this  have  no  in- 
fluence upon  the  wife  and  independent  people  of  this  province  ? — In  the  event 
of  a  public  commotion,  every  State  nuift  take  care  of  its  own  creditors,  living 
tvithin  its  jurifdidlion. — In  regard  to  numbers,  they  run  thus:  Virginia  and 
Kentucky  contain  1 ,!  00,000  perfons,  700,000,  of  which  are  white. — MaiTachu- 
fetts  and  Maine  contain  only  .575,000. — Pcnnfylvania  contains  upwards  of 
600,000  perfons — and  the  Constitutions,  of  16  out  of  17  States  duly  recognize 
the  antient  diftindtion  of  Freemen  and  Strvi :  conhdering  fueh  a  recognition,  as 
indifpenlably  neceffary  to  the  tranquillity,prefcrvation  and  ftrength  of  the  whole 
Federal  Union,  whofe  fundamental  principle  of  government,  is  dependent  on 
the  ratio  of  representation  and  taxation  by  numbers ;  which  is  the  key  Jlmeof  the 
Conjlitution. 

It  is  not  a  geographical  line,  or  territorial  boundary  i — It  is  not  a  circum- 
ftance  refting  on  thib  or  that  point  of  the  compafs — It  is  not  a  diffimilitude  of  lit- 
tle interefb  among  the  diftant,  but  irreproachable  members  of  the  great  political 
family — It  is  not  the  necromantic  efiicacy  of  a  few  miferable  terms  of  eabalifHc 
origin — It  is  not  the  merely  local  diftindlion  of  fouthern  or  northern  ftates,  or 


«TIIE   II  AMI  L  TON  I A  li. 


In  imitation  of  tne  Confcript  Sires  ; 

Feeling  their  foppery,  but  not  their  fires ; 

A  iign  of  eloquence,  thus  Art  opines, 

The  inarticulate  muft  deal  in  figh$  : 

Making  the  obfequies  of  Death  a  joke, 

(Ah  !  had  he  thought,  as  often  as  he  /poke) 

With  air  facetious  neutraliz'd  the  gloom, 

A  very  Petit  malt  re  at  the  tomb  ! 

Smirk'd,  iigh'd  and  fnivelPd  to  his  Royal  Clan, 

Took  his  rappee,  then  hemm'd,  and  thus  began. 

Decking  his  verbiage  in  tinfel  charms, 

While  Syntax  frown'd  in  anger  and  in  arms  : — 

"  Go,  Alex,  mid  the  fpirits  of  the  brave, 

While  royal  tears,  embalm  your  royal  grave  : 

the  deadly  attempt  to  cxafperate  Virginia  againft  Maffachufetts — It  is  not  by 
any  management  of  intrigue  or  difaG'eCtion  to  the  peace,  increafing  profperity 
and  happy  establishments  of  the  nation,  among  a  remnant  of  difappointcd  pious 
men,  and  their  infatuated  partisans  tuat  can  »k  shall  convulse  the  solid 
fAbKic  or  XBl  UNION! 

Louisiana. 

The  malignant,  hut  abfurd  manner,  in  which  the  Anglo-Federal  Faction,  have 
queftioned  the  policy  of  pollening  Louiftania,  is  the  moft  damning  proof  of  their 
inveteracy  to  our  civil  and  religious  liberties,  and  of  their  Servile  devotion  to  the 
views  of  the  Britilh  Government  that  has  occurred  :  firlt,  they  laboured  hard 
to  make  it  the  fource  of  a  foreign  war,  but  disappointed  in  that  mad  defire,  they 
attempted  to  invalidate  the  authority  of  France  in  regard  to  its  difpofal  ;  but  as 
quiet  pollellion  was  admitted  by  the  official  representatives  of  Spain,  as  well  as 
France,  they  groaned  withdifmay,  until  the  temporary  provifions  for  its  regu- 
lation under  the  American  fupremacy,  were  Submitted  to  the  approbation  of 
the  Congrefs  ;  then,  with  a  malignant  ardor,  they  brought  every  article  to  the 
rack  of  fophiftry,  and  by  infifting  loudly,  on  the  fallacy  of  means  that  had  nev- 
er been  tried,  ungeneroully  expected  to  excite  murmurs  agaiuft  the  beSi:  poflible 
mode,  which  human  fagacity  could  cheriSh,  for  the  fafe  arrangement  of  fuch 
chaotic  elements  of  grandeur. — What  additional  advantages,  would  thefe  ene- 
mies to  our  Government  defire,  for  the  people  of  Louiiiana  ?  they  have  equal 
laws,  freedom  of  religious  worfhip,  the  trial  by  jury,  the  benefit  of  the  Habeas 
C*rpus,  and  every  immunity  that  can  be  enjoyed  by  men  who  are  taking  a  pro- 
bationary Station  in  the  grades  of  Liberty,  to  qualify  them  for  a  fuller  enjoy- 
ment of  its  felicities — The  force  of  habit,  is  wonderfully  powerful,  and  men, 
may  be  found  (even  in  the  Eaftern  States)  who  would  rather  do  homage  to  a 
Tyrant,  for  the  privilege  to  breathe  ;  in  order,  that  they  might  tyrannize  over 
their  band  of  valTals  ;  than  fland  erect,  as  men  on  a  bafis  of  comparative  equality, 
tv-ith  the  raafs  of  human,  kind — As  tins  is  an  unquestionable,  though  a  melanchc- 


THE  HAMILTONIAD,  ?J 

Tulip  of  Federalifm — germ  of  Pride  ; 

By  Britain  bolfter'd,  and  to  Grace  allied  ; 

Inform  me,  by  next  poft  (to  eafe  my  woe) 

If  there's  an  Ariftocracy  below  !— 

Don't  peep  above  thy  bourrf,  my  fplendid  friend, 

New  England's  gone — our  treafon's  at  an  end  : 

Nor  Bank-civilities — nor  Englilh  gold, 

Could  bribe  the  Yankeys — They  will  not  be  fold  : 

The  Prieft  is  muzzled  and  the  Dolt's  in  dread  : 

The  Monk  is  mute,  and  Fisher's  gone  to  bed  ! 

E'en  hacknied  C — le — n's  bread  pumps  up  a  figh  : 

And  begs  forgivenefs  as  he  pens  the  lie  ! 

Like  foul  Arachne,  favage,  lean  and  dire, 
Coils  Anglo-D — nn — e,  pregnant  with  his  ire  : 

ly  fact,  what  could  the  Congreflional  Power  do,  under  fuch  extraordinary  want?, 
but  go  forwards  ;  with  a  cautious,  but  increahng  confidence  ;  and,  as  the  coaflr 
has  never  been  navigated  by  Freedom,  to  throw  the  lead,  as  they  advance  toward* 
legislative  perfection. 

In  beftowing  civil  and  religious  liberty  upon  a  people,  who  have  not  been  ac-' 
cufromed  to  their  enjoyment,  we  can  fcarcely  exercife  too  much  circumfpection  ; 
like  perfons  who  have  been  enfeebled  by  along  courfe  of  difeafe,  it  is  expedient 
that  we  fhould  regulate  our  cordials  and  anodynes  by  the  appearances  of  con- 
valefcence,  and  not  endanger  the  vital  principle,  by  an  influx  of  viands  too  fud- 
denly  adminiftered. — The  friends  of  the  executive  authority  muft  perceive  that 
they  are  placed  in  a  fituation  of  unprecedented  refponfibility  ;  to  emancipate  the 
inhabitants  of  a  province,  who  have  been  long  enllaved  by  the  harfh  inftitutes 
of  prelcriptive  force,  and  that  in  the  execution  of  this  godlike  endeavour,  much 
peril  may  arife,  as  refultingfrom  the  prejudices  of  cuftom,  and  much  more  from, 
a  domeftic  oppofition,  ifluing  from  villany,  in  the  knaviih,  and  from  misconcep- 
tion, in  the  unwife. 

Sir  Wm„  Blackstone,  in  his  Commentaries  on  the  Laws  of  England,  makes 
the  rights  of  perfons,  to  confift,  principally, "  in  the  enjoyment  of  perfonal  Se- 
curity, of  perfonal-  liberty,  and  of  private  property  :  fo  long  as  thefe  remain  in- 
violate," continues  this  legal  fage, "the  fubie.ct  is  perfectly  free:  for  every  fpeeies- 
of  compulfive  tyranny  and  oppreffion  mutt  act  in  oppofition  to  one  or  other  of 
thefe  rights,  having  no  other  object  upon  which  it  can  peffibly  be  employed."" 

Tlie  conditional  frailty  of  men,  comprifes  three  States  ;  Innocence,  fufpicion 
and  guilt  :  In  innocence,  he  is  to  be  protected  ;  in  fufpicion,  he  is  to  be  circum- 
fcribed  ;  and  in  guilt,  he  is  to  be  punifhed,  with  a  reference  to  mercy — From  at 
good  government  two  effentia!  points  are  required  :  Privileges  to  be  maintain- 
ed, and  a  power  comraenfurate  with  that  expected  fupport — That  being  the 
relative  pofition  of  the  ruler  and  the  community,  it  is  the  duty  of  all  men,  who 
mean  well  to  their  fellow  citizens,  to  take  all  the  bearings,  obligations  and  in- 
fcrmitie*  of  our  nature,  within  the  fcale  of  their  understanding,  before  they 


THE    If  AMI  LT  ON  IAD* 


Th'  impoifon'd  web  in  which  lie  fpitfl  and  crawls, 
Extends  from  Delaware  to  James's  vails  : 
Whence  Pitt  electrifies  his  Reptile's  blcod, 
And  gives  him  impetus  to  murder  good  ! 
Transfufes  venom  crofsnhe  troublous  deep, 
"While  all  the  Mufes  ftare,  and  wond'ring  weep  : 
"Why  am  I  thus  ?  the  fnivellmg  SariUihg  cries  : 
(Ah  why  !  Piriiaffuf'  echo,  fhrill  replies  :) 
Thofe  Gods  are  lalfc  in  w  hom  I  put  ray  truft  ; 
P — ck — g's  craz'd,  and  HisULZttM  is  duft  : 
J — y's  in  his  fecond  childhood — R — ss  is  nought  : 
And  Ch — 3e  is  ^Ttftrng  m  obtruiive  thought  : 
I've  made  the  inilitutes  of  Right  a  jell  : 
I've  itrew  'd  vile  hvces  o'er  my  natal  neft  : 

prefumc  to  paf>  judgment  upon  matters  cf  luch  high  moment  to  the  world—* 
The  truth  is,  that  the  whole  proceeding  ot  the  Executive  Authority,  relative  to 
L'j:/>/Ltv.i,  is  the  mod:  glorious  circumftance  of  Mr.  Jefterfon's  glorious  \w:  : — It 
was  conceived  in  wifdom,  was  organized  by  benevolence,  and  will  be  fufLincd 
by  happinefs  and  honor. 

"What  are  the  boundaries  of  Touifiana,"  as  acquired  by  the  United  Sates 
from  France,  by  the  late  treaty  of  eeffion  ?  This  point,  independent  of  any  con- 
nection it  may  have  with  the  ratification  of  the  convention, is  extremely  impor- 
tant. In  order  to  exhibit  this  view  the  more  diftincHy,  it  is  necelVary  to  go  back 
to  an  early  period  of  the  colonization  of  Touiliana. 

In  the  year  1673,  M.  M.  Joliet,  and  Marquette,  two  French  Canadians,  ex- 
cited bv  the  information  of  the  Indians,  explored  and  (truck  the  Miihlhppi, 
which  they  defcended  to  the  Arkanias.  Their  reprefentations  awakened  the 
curiohty  of  M.de  la  Sale,  who,  in  the  year  1  6SO,  under  the  permilhon  of  the 
French  government,  explored  the  Muiiilippi.  On  the  lower  part  of  the  Illinois 
he  garrifoned  a  fort  called  Crcvccour  ;  and  he  fent  father  Hennepin  down  the 
Milhffippi,  until  he  reached  the  ocean.  In  1682,  M.  la  Sale,  and  M.  Jonti, 
went  down  the  river  with  iixty  men,  named  the  country  Louihana,  built  a  fort 
in  the  Chickafaw  territory,  60  leagues  below  the  Ohio,  by  the  name  of  Prud- 
homme.  M.  la  Sale  then  returned  to  France.  TheFrench  government,  entering 
with  ardour,  into  his  icheme  of  forming  lettlements  along  the  St.  JLawrence  and 
Millithppi,  from  ieatofea,  placed  under  his  direftion  four  veilels,  with  men  and 
ftores.  He  failed  in  1  oSl ;  but  miffing  the  mouth  of  the  Mifliffippi,  landed  on 
the  18th  of  February,  in  the  Eay  of  St.  Bernard.  Here  he  made  two  fucceffive 
eitablifhments. 

About  this  time  the  Chevalier  Tontito,defcended  the  mouth  of  the  MiffifGp- 
pi,  and  on  afcending  the  river  formed  a  permanent  lettlement  on  the  Arkanfas. 
Not  long  after  this  period  feveral  ether  fmall  lettlements  were  made  by  en- 
terpriiing  Frenchmen. 

In  16*89  war  commenced  between  France  and  Spain,  which  lafted  till  1697, 
during  which  period  nothing  appeared  to  have  been  done  by  France  to  fuccour 


THE  HA  MILTON  IAD. 


SQ- 


IVe  flain'd  that  honor  which  upheld  my  youth  ; 
Fve  varnifh'd  Sophiftry  and  flaughter'd  Truth. 
He  had  faid  more.. ..but  Reafon  in  affright, 
CalPd  Shame  to  fweep  him  in  eternal  night  ! 
Oblivion  bring  thy  thickeft  blanket  here  : 
Send  Ocean's  pail  to  catch  this  gufhing  tear  : 
Give  me  the  Doldrums — marry  me  to  Strife  : 
Abridge  my  pangs  and  antedate  my  life  : 
Our  Faction  once,  amaz'd  the  fenfe  of  man, 
Like  proud  Palmyra,  ere  its  woes  began. 
What  are  we  now  ?   The  intimates  of  Scorn, 
Mere  dull  and  afhes,  trodden  and  forlorn  ! 
How  carelefs  mortals  feud  from  day  to  day, 
Nearing  their  ruin — miferably  gay  : 

her  colony.  In  1648,  M.  D'Iberville  was  difpatched  as  governour.  He  eftala- 
lilhedtwo  fettlements,  one  at  Ifle  Maflacre,  which  he  called  Hie  Dauphin,  and 
the  other  at  Mobile.  It  may  be  proper  to  obferve  that  during  the  war,  in  1 796, 
Spain  had  taken  poft  at  Penfacola. 

from  thefe  fadfcs  it  follows  that  France  enjoyed  the  actual  and  undifturbed 
rjoiTeffion  of  the  coaft  from  the  Mobile  to  the  Bay  of  St.  Bernard,  and  from  the 
mouth  of  the  Mifhflippi  to  the  Illinois,  which,  together  with  other  territory, 
comprifes  what  is  now  called  Weft  Florida,  but  which  then,  together  with  the 
country  as  far  as  Canada,  went  by  the  common  name  of  Louifiana. 

In  this  condition  things  ftood,  when  Louis  XIV.  by  letters  patent,  on  the  14th 
Sept.  1712,  granted  to  M.  Crozat,  the  exclufive  commerce  of  this  country  for 
fifteen  years.  This  document  is  important,  as  it  contains  the  firft  formal  recog- 
nition of  the  extent  of  the  French  proflefhons.  The  extracts  in  point,  are  as 
follows  : 

"  Louis  by  the  Grace  of  God  King  of  France  and  Navarre  :  To  all  who  fliall 
fee  thefe  Letters,  Greeting.  The  care  we  have  always  had  to  procure  the  wel- 
fare and  advantage  Of  our  fubjedts  have  induced  us,  notwithftanding  the  almoft 
continual  wars  which  we  have  been  obliged  to  fappoft  from  the  beginning  of 
our  reign,  to  feek  for  all  poilible  opportunities  of  extending  and  enlarging  the 
trade  of  our  American  colonies,  ive  did  in  the  year  1683  give  our  .rdcrs  to  undertake 
a  difcovery  of  the  countries  and  lands  which  are  htuated  in  the  northern  part 
of  America  between  New  France  and  New  Mexico.  And  the  Sieur  de  la  Sale,- 
to  whom  we  committed  that  enterprife,  having  had  fuccefs  enough  to  confirm 
a  belief  that  a  communicution  might  be  fttltd from  New  France  tc  tSe  Gulf  of  Mexico  by 
means  of  large  rivers  ;  this  obliged  us  immediately  after  the  peace  of  Ryfwick  to- 
give  orders  for  the  eftablifhing  a  colony  there,  and  maintaining  a  garri'fon,  ivhich 
has  kept  aid  preferred  the poJfe(fion,\we  had  taken  in  the  very  year  J  633  of  the  lands* 
coafts  and  iflands  which  are  fituated  in  the  gulph  of  Mexico,  hetiveen  Carolina  oh 
the  Eij?,and  Old  and  Neiv  M:xico  on  the  Wejl.  But  a  new  war  haviug  broke  out 
in  Europe  lhortly  after,  there  was  no  pollibility,  till  now,  of  reaping  from  that 
new  colony  the  advantages  that  might  have  been  expected  from  theiitee,  becauie 

K 


9© 


THE   HA  MIL  TON  I  AD. 


Swilling  pcftif'rous  draughts  from  Circe's  cup  

Sucking,  Jikc  amber,  wofthlcfs  gew-gaws  up — 

Growing  more  vi'c,  by  each  fuccccding  feat — 

Strap  me  to  Neptune's  car  and  bathe  me  fwcet  ; 

Why  are  we  heard,  but  voluble  in  groans  ?  ^ 

Mad  in  our  deed — The  vitiis  in  our  bones —  L 

The  Devil  take  Dcucalkn  and  hU  (tones.  J 

Then  J — y' began,  in  moralizing  {trains, 

And  thus  pourtray'd  the  circle  of  his  pains  : 

With  retrofpeclive  horror,  wild  and  hoc, 

He  fpit  enigma*,  thick  as  Preble's  mot. 

Pride  warms  that  bread,  which  Reafon  mould  have 
cool'd  : 

I  ruPd  a  State,  but  now  alas,  am  rul'd  : 

the  private  men,  who  are  <~  mcerned  in  the  fea  trade,  were  all  under  engagements 
with  other  colonies  which  they  have  been  obliged  to  follow  :  And  WHEREAS 
upon  information  wc  have  received  concerning  the  difpofition  and  fituation  of 

the  faid  coutitriti  iniKU/i  at  t>rr/~/.-t  L\  the  name  of  tht  Province  of  Lovifiana,  we  are  of 
opinion  that  there  may  be  cftablifhed  therein  a  confiderable  commerce,  fo  much 
the  more  advantageous  to  our  kingdom  in  that  there  has  hitherto  been  a  nccefhty 
of  fetching  from  foreigners  the  great  eft  part  of  the  commodities  which  may  be 
brought  from  thence,  and  b^cauXe  in  exchange  thereof  we  need  carry  thither 
nothing  but  the  commodities  of  the  growth  and  manufacture  of  our  kingdom  ; 
we  have  refolved  to  grant  the  commerce  of  the  country  of  Louifiana  to  the  Sieur 
Anthony  Crozat,  our  councellor,  Secretary  of  the  Houfehold,  Crow  n  and  Reve- 
nue, to  whom  we  entrufc  the  execution  of  this  project.  We  are  the  more  readi- 
ly inclined  hereunto,  becaufe  his  zeal  and  the  lingular  knowledge  he  has  acquired 
in  maritime  commerce  encourage  us  to  hope  for  as  good  fuccefs  as  he  has  hither- 
to had  in  the  divers  and  fundry  enterprises  he  has  gone  upon,  and  which  have 
procured  to  our  kingdom  great  quantities  of  gold  and  filver  in  fuch  conjunctures 
as  have  rendered  them  very  welcome  to  us. 

<k  For  theie  reafons  being  defirous  to  fhow  our  favour  to  him,  and  to  regu- 
late the  conditions  upon  which  we  mean  to  grant  him  the  faid  commerce  after 
having  deliberated  this  affair  in  our  Council,  of  our  certain  knowledge,  full 
power  and,  Royal  authority,  We  by  thefe  Prefents,  ligned  by  our  hand,  have  ap- 
pointed and  do  appoint  the  faid  Sieur  Crozat,  folely  to  carry  on  a  trade  in  all 
the  lands  poiTeiTed  by  us,  and  bounded  by  New  Mexico,  and  by  the  lands  of  the 
Englifh  Carolina,  all  the  eftcblfcments,  ports.,  havens,  rivers,  and  principally  the  port 
and  haven  of  the  IJle  Dauphin,  heretofore  IWaffacre  :  the  river  St.  JLczvis, 
heretofore  called  JMiffiffippi,  font  the  edge  of  the  fea  as  far  as  the  Illinois,  together 
ivith  the  river  of  Si.  Philip,  heretofore  called  the  AI]Jfouries,  and  St.  "Jerome,  here- 
tofore called  Ovabache,  ivith  all  the  countries,  territories,  lakes  ivithin  land,  and  tht 
rivers  which  fall  direSlly  or   iidireclly  into  the  part  of  the  river  St.  Leivis. 

«  The  ARTICLES— lft — Our  pleafure  is,  that  all  the  aforefaid  lands,  coun- 
try, (breams,  rivers  and  iflands,  be  and  remain  comprifed  under  the  name  cf  tb* 


THE   HAMILTON  IAD. 


9* 


The  Bible,  which  I  read  (a  long  time  paft) 

Makes  the  laft  fir  ft,  and  then  the  firft,  makes  laft  : 

•That;  which  was,  what  is  it  ?  fhew, 

That  which  it  was,  it  is  not  now  ! 

To  be  what  'tis,  is  not  to  be,  you  fee  : 

That  which  is  net,  mall  yet  a  being  be  ! 

All  Nature's  in  a  dance,  at  Ruin's  rout, 

Where  fome  cut  in  the  jig,  while  fome — cut  out  ! 

Should  thefe  fait  drops  roll  down  my  check, by  fcores 

Who's  breath'd  in  Courts— Who's  op'd  St.  James' 
doors, 

And  fupp'd  with  Honorable — fons  of  w  s  ? 

Whom  G renville  took  fo  often  by  the  fift  : 
Who  Kings  have  prais'd  and  Countelfes  have  kift  ? 

*  A  free  rendering  of  the  Latin  motto,  to  Gen.  Hamiiion's  character. 

government  of  Lovijianj,  which  fhall  be  dependent  upon  the  general  government 
of  New  France,  to  which  it  is  fubordinate  :  and  further  that  all  the  lands  which 
we  polfefs  from  the  Illinois  be  united,  fo  far  as  occafion  require  to  the  general 
government  of  New  France,  and  become  part  thereof,  referring,  however  to 
ourfelves  the  liberty  of  enlarging  as  we  fhall  think  fit  the  extent  of  the  govern- 
ment of  the  faid  country  of  Louifiana." 

This  is  a  folemn  declaration  that  the  waters  running  direcStly  or  indiredlry 
into  the  Miihffippi,  and  the  country  they  embrace,  conftitufed  the  province  of 
Louifiana.  Within  thefe  limits  France  continued  without  difturbance  to  extend 
her  fettlements  till  the  year  J  763.  During  this  period  were  formed  the  treaties 
of  Ryfwickin  1697,  of  Utrecht  in  1713,  and  of  Raftadt  in  1714,  to  which  Spain 
was  a  party,  and  which  in  none  of  their  provifions  invalidate  the  rights  of 
France. 

In  1718,  the  French  took  Penfacola  from  Spain,  to  whom  it  was  reftored  at 
the  peace  of  1719  ;  fince  which  thePerdido,  between  Mobile  and  Penfacola,  has 
been  the  acknowledged  boundary  between  LouifiaHa  and  Florida. 

The  boundaries  of  Louifiana,  then  as  held  by  France,  were  the  eoaft  and 
iflands  from  the  Perdido  to  the  Rio  Norte  ;  up  that  river  to  its  fource  ;  thence 
to  the  highlands  and  round  the  fources  of  the  Mincuri  and  Milfiffippi,  and 
their  waters  to  the  Alleghanv  mountains,  along  thofe  mountains  ar.d  the  high 
lands  furroundmg  the  waters  of  the  Mobile  to  the  head  of  the  Perdido,  and" 
down  that  river  to  the  ocean. 

There  was,  it  is  true,  a  collifion  between  thefe  claims  and  thofc  of  the  Englifh 
colonies,  whole  charters  extended  from  fea  to  fea  ;  but  thefe  interfering  claims 
were  adjufted  by  the  treaty  of  Paris  of  1763  ;  by  which  the  Miffifiippi  and  I- 
herville  were  made  the  limits  of  the  Englifh  poffeffions  on  the  Eaft,  and  Louifia- 
na on  the  Weft. 

Thus  far  then,  that  is  to  the  year  1763,  there  is  no  doubt  that  what  is  now 
denominated  Weft  Florida,  was  a  part  of  Louifiana. 
To  the  war  which  commenced  between  France  and  England  in  1755,  Spain 


92 


THE  IIAMILTONlAD. 


Who  fignjd  a  cov'nant  that  had  ne'er  been  read, 
And  fold  our  rights  to  prove  myfelf — well-bred. — j 

There's  L  s,  chair'd,  our  point  of  gubernation  : 

And  Liberty  has  nail'd  him  to  the  itation  : 
For  Delicacy's  fhge  he  ne'er  was  book'd — 
Like  a  {hip's  elbow,  knotty,  hard  and  crook'd, 
lie  binds  the  flimfy  fcantlings  by  his  toughnefs  ; 
And  draws  his  vulgar  value,  from  his  roughnefs  : 
"While  I,  the  pink  of  kindnefs,  roam,  at  large, 
Lie  banquets  daily  at  the  public  charge  ! — 
My  heart  gets  lefs  and  lefs — my  ills  increafe  : 
Coerce  my  Torments — Bid  my  Sorrows  ceafe  : 
Transform  me  into  hofc,  to  fmokc  and  rot 
Round  rancid  feet,  when  Summer's  funs  arc  hot  ; 

jrr  1 7G2  became  a  party  on  the  fide  of  France.  England  having  been  fo  fuccefsfui 
as  to  conquer  a  confidcrablc  portion  of  the  Ifland  of  Cuba  from  Spain  negotia- 
tions were  entered  into  for  a  peace.  In  thefe  negotiations  Great-Britain  required 
Florida  and  that  part  of  Louiliana  between  the  Iberville  and  the  Perdido,  in  ex- 
change for  Cuba.  To  enable  Spain  to  offer  thefe  as  an  equivalent,  France,  by  a 
fecret  treaty  dated  November  3,  1  762  (the  fame  day  on  which  the  preliminary 
treaty  was  ligned)  confented  to  cede  to  Spain  all  Louiliana.  Ey  the  definitive 
treaty,  figned  on  the  10th  February,  17G3,  France  ceded  to  England  all  Louifi- 
ana  eaft  of  the  MilfifDppi,  except  the  bland  of  New-Orleans  ;  which  with  the  re- 
mainder of  the  province  flic  ceded  to  Spain.  The  ceflion  to  F.ngland,  although 
formally  on  the  part  of  France  (for  the  treaty  between  France  and  Spain  was  ftill 
fecret)  was  fuljlantially  made  by  Spain,  who  had  become  the  real  proprietor  of 
all  Louiliana. 

England  immediately  divided  her  newly  acquired  pofTefrions  into  two  diftin<5l 
governments  ;  to  one  the  gave  the  name  of  WlJI  Florida,  which  embraced  the 
tract  weft  of  the  Apalachicola  ;  and  to  the  other,  embracing  the  refidue  of  her 
pofTellions,  fhegave  that  of  Eaft  Florida.  This  is  the  firft  that  we  hear  of  Wtfc 
J'lonc/a,  '^  being  a  name  given  by  Great-Eritain  to  a  fubdivifion  of  her  territory. 

At  the  clofe  ot  the  American  war  in  1783,  Great-Britain  reftored  to  Spain 
Florida,  and  the  country  eaft  of  the  Iberville.  Spain,  on  taking  pofreflion,  con- 
tinued, with  fome  modification,  the  Engliih  arrangements,  placing,  however, 
"Weft  Florida  under  the  jurifdi&ion  of  the  governour  of  Louiliana,  who  refided 
at  New-Orlear.s ;  and  fince  that  time  this  territory,  as  well  in  publick  inftru- 
inents,  as  in  general  conversation,  has  gone  by  the  names  of  Louiliana  or  Weft 
Florida,  fometimes  the  one  and  fometimes  the  other  name  being  ufed. 

On  the  lft  of  October,  1800,  by  the  treaty  of  St.  Udefonfo,  Spain  receded  to 
France  the  "  colony  or  province  of  Louiliana,  with  the  fame  extent  that  it  ac- 
tually has  in  the  hands  of  Spain — that  it  had  when  France  pofTelTed  it — and 
fuch  as  it  ought  to  be  after  the  treaties  palled  fubfequently  between  Spain  and 
other  ftates." 

On  the  30th  of  April  1803,  France  ceded  to  the  United  States  all  the  tcrrit  :ry 
V/hich  fhe  had  thus  acquired  from  Spain. 


'  THE  KAMILTONIAD. 


93 


Fix  me,  like  Turkies,  to  fome  ice-bound  fpot, 

That  Dolts  may  moot  me,  for  fix  cents  a  lliot  ; 

Make  me  a  rudder,  in  the  eaftern  feas, 

For  Lubber's  paws,  to  mifdirecl  and  teaze  : 

My  hour-glafs  lags — My  occupation's  gone  : 

What  once  was  day,  is  now  a  dies  non  ! 

Hear  Ell — t  chatter,  like  a  peevifii  Pie  ; 

Though  all  his  argument  is,  I,  I,  I  ! 

He  feems  t  infinuate  good  as  in  defpite, 

A  Pye-bald  Patriot,  neither  black  nor  white  ! 

Hark  !  'tis  the  recreant  Monk — "  Plagues  mark 
that  hour, 

When  I  was  tainted  with  a  luft  of  pow'r  : 
Tie  Liberty  upon  the  rack  of  Wrath — 
Go  deluge  Jefferson,  with  Fed'ral  froth — 

Thefeare  the  facts  of  which  a  deciiion  is  to  be  made  whether  the  eeffion  hy 
France  to  the  United  States  does,  or  does  not  embrace  that  portion  of  country- 
called  Weft  Florida  » 

In  thejitji  place  Spain  ftipulates  to  recede  Louifiana  ivith  the  fame  extent  that  it 
atlually  has  [in  1800]  in  the  hands  of  Spain.  To  determine  the  import  of  this 
ftipulation  it  is  only  nereflary  to  afcertain  the  extent  of  country  embraced  by 
the  term  Latitfiand\  It  has  been  clearly  lhown  that  previous  to  the  ceiTion  of 
France  to  Spain,  Louifiana  extended  to  the  Perdido.  Had  any  thing  occurred 
previoufly  to  the  date  of  the  treaty  of  St.  Ildefonfo,  to  contract  its  limits  ?  If 
nothing1  had  occurred,  the  limits  muft  be  confidered  as  unaltered.  That  por- 
tion of  territory,  ceded  in  1763  to  Great-Britain,  was  receded  to  Spain  in  1783, 
with  the  new  name  of  Weft  Florida,  given  by  England.  Reftored  to  Spain,  al- 
though this  name  was  not  formally  dilmifted,  the  territory  which  it  covers,  was 
re-annexed  to  the  government  of  Louifiana,  and  the  old  arrangements,  previous 
to  its  celfion  to  England  re-inftated.  By  thefe  arrangements  Louifiana,  as  to  its 
extent,  was  replaced  in  the  fame  lituatiou  it  occupied  previous  to  the  ceflion  of 
a  part  of  it  to  Great-Britain,  which  was  the  lame  with  that  it  held  when  pof- 
lefled  by  France  under  whofe  arrangements  Weft  Florida  formed  a  part  of  it. 

But  as  if  folicitous  to  remove  all  ambiguity,  the  treaty  proceeds  to  ftipulate,  in 
the  ficonJ  place  that  Louifiana  Jhall  be  ceded  in  the  fame  extent  it  bad  ivhen  France 
foff-Jpd  it  (that  is,  previoully  to  the  year  17G3).  Now  the  fact  is  that  France 
never  poflefied  this  province,  with  any  extent  which  did  not  include  the 
Englifh  province  of  Weft  Florida — It  may  have  occurred  to  the  framers  of  the 
treaty  of  St.  Ildefonfo,  that  doubts  might  arife  as  to  the  meaning  of  the  term 
"  the  province  of  Louifiana,"  after  the  eeffion  of  a  part  of  it  to  Great  Britain, 
and  its  receffion  to  Spain.  Hence  the  propriety  of  diffipating  all  fuch  doubts, 
by  declaring  that  the  new  eeffion  fhould  be  in  the  fame  extent  it  had  ivhen  France 
fojf'jjed  it.  This  effectually  fet  afide  all  regard  to  the  regulations  of  England. 
Suppofing,  then,  the frfl  ftipulation  to  be  of  doubtful  import,  the  fecond,  fo  plain 
as  not  to  admit  of  any  other  conftruclion,  comes  in  to  remove  all  doubts.    For  it 


5?4 


THE   II A  M I L  T  ON  I A  D 


Each  cyc-ball  now  is  ftarting  from  its  fphcrc  : 
"  Holy  Saint  Francis,  what  a  change  is  here." 
Now  all's  hypocrify  ! — 'Tis  Rudcnefs  braves, 
And  morals  fuffer  moft  from  pious  knaves  : 
Who  is  good-naturd  in  his  focial  deeds  ? 
Not  him  who  fattens,  but  the  Dolt  who  bleeds  ! 
Men  rail  at  duels,  with  felf-faving  fnccrs, 
And  wrap  their  cowardice  in  chriftian  fears  ! 

TV  uncreftcd  P — cx — v,  marvellous  and  wan,  g 
In  elegiac  tone  his  ills  began,  C 
Like  the  fad  accents  of  a  dying  fwan  !  J 
How  man,  in  goodncfs,  Jhould  his  time  employ — 
How  frail's  the  tenure  of  a  Faction's  joy  1 — 
Not  twenty  moons  ago  our  Party's  chain, 
Ran,  link  in  link,  from  Georgia  into  Maine  : 

is  an  efbbiifhed  principle  of  conftxuetion,  that  where  there  are  two  paflagCT 
trailing-  to  the  fame  end,  one  of  which  is  doubtful,  and  the  other  clear,  the  lafc 
fhall  preponderate.  The  denial  of  this  conftrudlion  to  the  (tipulation  will  be 
tantamount  to  faving  that  it  fhall  have  no  meaning  at  all,\vhich  in  fo  folemn  an 
infh  timent  as  a  treaty,  and  on  lo  important  an  occalion  as  the  transfer  of  terri- 
tory, is  altogether  madmifOble. 

In  the  thin!  place  it  is  JiipiiLitcil  that  the  eejjlon  Jball  L:  fuch  as  it  ought  to  be  after 
the  ttt\itift  pajjiiifubjcquently  between  Spain  and  other Jiates—t\v3X  is,  fubfequently  to  the 
celhon  by  France,  which  was  in  the  year  1762.  Now,  fubfequently  to  this 
was  formed  the  treaty  of  179.5  between  Spain  and  the  United  States,  by  which 
the  former  confirmed  to  the  latter  a  degree  of  latitude  (from  32  to  SI  degrees) 
which  fhe  had  alleged  to  be  a  part  of  Louifiana  unceded  to  France,  and  con- 
sequently belonging  to  her. 

According  to  thefe  ftipulations,  taken  together,  Spain  ceded  Louifiana  to 
France  exactly  as  France  pofTefTedit  previous  to  the  year  1763,  with  the  only 
exception  of  a  refervation  of  the  rights  acknowledged  by  Spain  to  attach  to  the 
United  States,  and  in  this  precife  fhape  France  thus  pofleffed  of  Louifiana,  has 
ceded  it  to  the  United  States.  If  the  fa<fh>  we  have  ftated,  and  the  inferences 
deduced  from  them  be  correal,  it  follows  that  the  Perdido  is  the  boundary  of 
X-ouiJiana,  and  confequently  that  Weft  Florida  is  a  part  of  the  ceflion  to  the 
United  States. — Nat.  Intel. 

In  the  fecond  inauguration  ef  Mr.  Jefferson,  we  have  full  caufe  for  National 
Gladnefs.  It  will  form  a  great  and  confoling  aera,  when  in  times  unborn,  the 
friends  of  virtue  fhall  recur  to  this  event,  as  bearing  equal  honor  to  the  difcern- 
ment  of  the  people  and  the  integrity  of  their  Firft  Magiftrate.  Such  concur- 
ring emanations  of  popular  good  fenfe  and  moral  gratitude,  we  are  confident 
in  affirming,  have  never  been  recorded  in  hiftory.  Among  fuch  men,  tho  refi- 
dence  of  Liberty  may  be  fecure  ;  their  deep  knowledge  of  right  will  prefcrve 


THE  HAMILTONIAD. 


While  Hamilton,  with  necromancy  warm, 
Iflued  from  central  York,  the  apt  alarm  ; 
To  freight,  with  royal  fpells,  our  iron  charm. 
Then  in  big  bulk,  we  flounder'd,  at  our  eafe, 
As  the  Leviathan  deforms  the  leas  ; 
In  one  vaft  compact  body,  firm  we  lay, 
Like  icy  maffes  in  the  frozen  bay  ; 
Impeding  the  free  commerce  of  the  land, 
Condens'd,  though  hideous — terrible,  though  grand  i 
At  length  the  radiant  force  of  Virtue  gleam'd, 
Darted  her  fires  and  thaw'd  us,  as  fhe  beam'd  : 
Till  a  deep  cram,  like  Ruin's  mandate  rofe, 
Marking  our  dhTolution,  and  our  woes  ; 
The  tide  of  Reafon  undermin'd  our  ftate, 
Till  its  full  influence  had  fix'd  our  fate  : 

her  from  the  machinations  of  declared  foes,  and  their  temperance  will  guard 
her  from  the  fatal  excefles  of  cnthufiafm. 

In  the  wide  rejoicings  on  that  proud  event,  we  connect  the  dangers  that  we 
have  part  with  the  felicities  that  we  embrace.  In  returning  thanks  to  heaven 
for  its  providential  interpolition  in  our  favor,  by  refcuing  us  from  the  chain* 
of  an  ariftocratic,  unnatural  and  cruel  faction,  and  thereby  reftoring  our  dignity 
as  a  people,  we  cannot  refrain  from  mingling  our  tears  with  our  confolation. 
.Like  fea-beaten  mariners  who  have  efcaped  total  deftruction,  while  we  kifs  the 
land  that  is  firm  in  our  fupport,  we  cannot  take  a  retrofpective  view  of  the 
fragments  of  the  wreck  without  horror  ! 

It  hath  been  lamentably  aflerted,  by  a  celebrated  philofopher  of  the  old 
world,  (Charron)  that  there  is  no  reward  or  honor  affigned  unto  thofe  who 
know  how  to  encreafe  or  preferve  human  nature  :  all  honors,  greatnefs,  riches, 
dignities,  empires,  triumphs  and  trophies,  are  appointed  for  thofe  only,  who 
know  how  to  afflict,  trouble  or  deftroy  it.  And  this  woeful  aflertion  is  cor- 
rect, fo  far  as  regards  the  ruling  propensities  of  every  part  of  the  globe  but 
this  Angularly  happy  nation.  It  is  here,  and  here  alone,  where  reafon  and 
juftice  feem  to  have  their  due  eftablifhment.  In  Britain  you  fee  a  fplendid 
court,  furrounding  a  monarch,  whole  reftricted  intellect  forms  no  impediment 
to  his  beheft  in  governing.  Around  this  royal  inftance  of  infirmity,  the  mean, 
but  haughty  fycophants  revolve,  like  fatellites  of 'power  :  but,  as  this  local  gran- 
deur is  inhumanly  impreffive,  fo  the  confequence  upon  the  community  is  inhu- 
man penury.  The  many  crouch  and  ihudder  before  the  few,  and  even  thofe 
gallant  fpirits  are  ftarved  into  unconditional  fubmilhon  to  privileged  villany 
and  partial  laws,  who  have  difcernment  to  afcertain  the  extent  of  their  wretch- 
ednefs  ! — We  thank  the  Supreme  Being,  that  our  political  ftate  is  far  otherwife. 
In  this  mild  but  mighty  confederation  of  Sifter  States,  the  people  can  exprefs 
their  fovereign  will  towards  their  magiftrates  ;  their  eternal  right  to  rule  is  inter- 
woven with  their  elective  franclufes  5  their  yarifprudence  embraces  the  good  of 


1 


IIAMILTONIAD. 


Our  fragments,  then  upheav'd  from  Trcafon's  mud,- 

In  wild  dcfpondcncc  floated  down  the  flood  ; 

Unpatroniz'd  and  vagrant,  torn  from  power  ; 

Melting  tow'rds  nothingnefs,  in  every  liour  ! 

Oh  mifcrable  man  !   thus  vain  to  be  ; 

"  Seeing,  what  I  have  fecn,  feeing  what  I  fee." 

How  ftreams  of  Mifery  fliove  us  to  Defpair  : 

My  ills,  lafl:  week,  would  make  a  Stoic  fvvcar — 

Laft.  Monday  night,  I  loft  my  Steed  ! 

Virginia  has  no  better  breed  : 

Laft  Tucfday  night,  I  loft  my  Coufin  : 

Now  Death  has  all — 1  had  a  dozen  ! 

Laft  We'nfday  night — I  loft  my  Brother  ! 

Fate  cannot  fend  me-^fuch  another. 

all  conditions  in  fociety,  and,  -when  a  dereliction  from  the  generous  princrpJcs 
of  the  Federal  Compact  is  directly  or  indirectly  difplayed,  by  their  firit  fcrvant, 
they  can  openly  calhier  the  traitor  to  their  independence.  The  miniltry  of 
heaven  are  not  infulted  with  a  jure  Jinino  j  and  we  fervently  hope  and  trufk  it 
will  be  long,  very  long,  before  the  minings  of  corruption,  or  any  irregular  mo- 
tive of  ambition,  ariimg  from  the  mediant  /bungles  of  pride  and  wealth  to  be 
predominant,  ihall  introduce  that  ariftocratic  leaven  in  our  fyftem,  that  mull 
ultimately  lead  to  the  overthrow  of  our  liberties,  by  depriving  the  Citiien  of 
his  equal  rights  and  natural  importance. 

There  being  an  evident  and  declared  dehre  to  eftablilh  an  order  of  nobility 
ia  the  United  States,  by  the  Hamiitonian  faction,  and  as  that  defire  has  not  been 
fo  openly  manifefted  in  any  other  portion  of  this  Union,  as  New-England,  where 
the  habitudes  of  lifefeem  moll  inimical  to  fuch  an  arrogant  order,  we  fhall  pre- 
fent  a  flying  ftatement  of  the  origin  of  that  domineering  body  among  the  Ro- 
mans. The  firft  Patricians  or  Nobility  of  Rome,  who  were  fublimated  with  that 
title,  were  the  children  and  defendants  of  the  hundred  lenators  named  by  Ro- 
mulus (Livius  Titus,  lib.  i.)  Lucius  13rutus.  The  Dictator,  Cxfar,  and  the  Em- 
perors Auguftus  and  Claudius  created  others,  upon  the  principle  that  the  an- 
ceftors  of  the  parties  had  rendered  vaft  fervices  to  their  country ;  (fcuetonius  & 
Tacitus)  but  we  find  no  recorded  good  of  this  bodv,  corporateiy  confidered, 
although  there  are  many  inltances  of  their  infolent  folly.  The  puppy  Clcdius, 
who  was  of  this  order,  had  the  prefumption  to  call  Cicero,  the  father  and  con- 
fervator  of  his  country,  the  ciown  of  Arpinum  :  a  fimilar  affront  was  offered  to 
the  great  Coriolanus,  (Ille  arator  Arpinas,  et  manipularis  Jmperator)  becaufe  he 
was  a  general  extracted  from  the  purfuits  of  hufhandry — and  this  is  the  lan- 
guage of  Pliny.  The  fame  unworthy  fpirit  prevailed  in  the  memorable  "  feign 
of  terror,"  when  the  advocates  for  an  American  nobility  ftigmatized  the  illuf- 
trious  Franklin  with  the  vile  appellation  of"  Old  Lightning  Rod /"  We  had  a 
felf-created  peerage  here,  who,  in  a  tadpole  ftate,  were  directing  their  mean  ob- 
loquies againfl  the  purcft,  wifefl:  and  braveft  defenders  of  our  common  right?-. 
They  huddled  together  into  a  paltry  mafs,  and  drew  a  circle  cf  diftinction  and 


THE  HAMILTONIAD. 


97 


Laft  Thurfday  night,  my  Miftrefs  died  : 
No  Co.  have  I  ! — I  mould  have  cried  : 
Laft  Friday  night,  I  loft  my  credit  ; 
(The  Britifli  Fa&ion  made  and  fed  it)  : 
Laft  Saturday,  I  loft  my  Friend, 
My  anguifti  ne'er  will  have  an  end  ! 
Laft  Sunday  night,  I  loft  my  wits, 
And  now  I  weep  and  laugh,  by  fits  2 
Can  any  have  misfortunes  worfe  ? 
I'm  really  forry  for — my  Horfc  ! 

Connecticut's  high  Pope,  and  royal  guide, 
With  a  fmear'd  manual  lying  by  his  fide  : 
His  keen  eyes  dimm'd  with  Sorrow's  falted  ftream, 
Firft  kick'd  his  wig,  and  then  began  his  theme. 

extinction  around  them,  to  feparate  themfelves  from  the  Farmer  and  Mechanic, 
whom  they  unblufhingly  avoided  and  reprobated  as  "  the  rabble" — after  all 
this  folly  and  madnefs,  they  affect  to  wonder  that  they  have  loft  the  regards 
and  confidence  of  their  fellow-citizens  !  They  affect  to  wonder  that  the  people 
clung  to  Mr.  Jefferfon  as  their  beft  point  of  hope  in  the  day  of  trouble  ;  that 
they  called  him  to  the  chair  of  flate  with  unprecedented  acclamations  and  un- 
animity, imploring  the  Creator  to  blefs  his  life,  that  he  might  confoiidate  and 
reunite  their  Shattered  interefts,  and  fulfil  the  million  of  benevolence.  Had  not 
the  election  of  Mr.  Jefferfon  taken  place  thus  timely,  we  lliouid  even  now  have* 
been  trodden  under  the  feet  of  a  monied  arifocracy,  who  would  have  had  all  the 
jitrte  and  repulfion  of  excluding  arrogance,  without  the  accompaniment  of  thole 
graces  which  can  render  diftinction  tolerable. 

,Tivas  not  i/jj  fpaivn  of  fuch  as  ihefe, 

That  dyed,  ivith  Punic  Hood,  the  bltJbing  f  as, 

And  fmote  the  fern  ASqddes, 

JBade  even  Albion  s  chofen  legions  yield, 

And  ivon  the  long  difpuied   IVoi  Id  in  Saratoga's  fJd  / 

Surrounded  with  hoftile  cabals  and  haughty  afpinng  men,  who  are  aiming  to 
Taife  a  monarchy  upon  the  allies  of  the  republic  ;  ftuuned  with  the  din  of  cal- 
umny, and  fubjected  to  the  impertinent  queftions  of  follv,  and  the  anger  of  del- 
pair,  Jefferfon  lifts  his  radiant  head  above  the  ftorm  with  magnanimity,  being 
allured  of  the  love  and  gratitude  cf  the  moil  difcerning  people  that  were  ever 
leagued  together  in  one  political  obligation.  To  fatisfy  the  defires  cf  all.  wheal 
thofe  defires  are  fo  contradictory,  is  not  within  the  fphere  bf  moral  agency ; 
but  he  does  ae  much  as  the  frailty  of  our  nature  will  permit,  by  reforming  to 
virtue,  in  his  intention,  and  to  experience  in  his  action.  It  has  been  obviou'lv  hi* 
endeavour  to  prove  that  natural  fociety  may  be  maintained  by  the  fair  principles 
of  natural  juftice,  and  that  mankind  may  be  taught  to  regard  virtue  from  the 
beauty  of  its  femblance  and  the  holinefs  of  its  qualities.  It  is  for  the  peculiar 
reputation  as  well  as  happineis  of  the  New  World,  that  fuch  a  fyftsw  can  b$ 


9? 


THE  HAMILTONIAt). 


/ 


(Wiiilc  abject  Noah,  dying  by  degrees, 

Pesp'J  through  the  outer  key-hole,  on  his  knees.) 

Ere  the  Tiara?  mock'd  me,  in  a  vifion  ; 

Ere  I  became  the  point  of  men's  dcriHon  : 

In  artlefs  minftrclfy  I  palVd  my  youth, 

And  fung  of  Canaan,  and  the  age  of  Truth  ; 

When  tribes  in  heaven  and  honor  placM  their  tniffl  ; 

"When  Priefts  were  tmor\  and  even  jews  were  juft  I 

In  my  adolefcencej  like  fomc  coy  maid, 

Of  man,  but  more  of  Flattery  afraid  ; 

In  deeds  of  innocence  I  pajfe*d  my  days  ; 

At  Guilt  I  trembled,  and  I  bluhYd  at  praife  ; 

In  holy  maidenhood  I  meekly  grew, 

Efchewihg  Satan  and  his  flaunting  crew — 

properly  appreciafrd  here,  aj  there  is  no  other  territory  where  the  intelligence 
of  the  people  would  be  equal  to  the  reception  or  enjoyment  of  fuch  unexampled 
ad  van1.  iges.  The  other  focieries  of  the  earth  are  little  better  tlian  the  Roman, 
t\  tv.  -  were  ;  prj  nAih,  pro  »:oriu'n  :  or  of  no  account  in  the  fcale  of  honor,  retri- 
bution or  mercy.  They  may  have  their  gradations  of  bondage,  but  tbey  are  all 
in  fetters,  fubjevfk  to  the  caprice  of  hereditary  defpots,  who  impioufly  pretend  to 
he  confecratcd  by  the  Almighty  while  they  are  mocking  his  benign  attributes- 
in  nearly  all  their  determination--. 

It  is  apparently  the  difpufciou  of  Mr.  JefFerfon,  not  to  try  how  much  can  be 
done  with  toleration,  but  how  much  the  nature  of  what  is  good  and  equitable 
m  ly  require  :  bis  adminiftration  feems  rather  an  experiment  of  governing  kind- 
ness, proT$fig  how  far  fociety  can  be  virtuoufly  confident,  independent  of  co- 
ercive barfhnefe  ;  than  as  a  courfe  of  rule  correfponding-  with  human  wants, and 
equal  to  the"  retiltance  of  the  word  affections  of  the  mind.  Without  largeffes 
for  the  covetous  ;  without  titles  for  the  vain  ;  without  commenfurate  rigour 
for  the  unworthy,  and  without  fuftenance  for  the  extraneoufly  ambitious,  he 
holds  thefcalcs  of  a  nation's  glory,  and  with  a  fteady  hand  ;  leaving  the  un- 
fheatbed  fword  to  the  guidance  of  jultiee  who  fuperintends  his  underftandihg, 
and  ratifies  his  declaration.  Under  his  aufpicious  government,  we  hear  nothing 
of  mercenary  armies  ;  fediticn  bills  to  fupprefs  examination  ;  intolerable  taxa- 
tion ;  profcriptive  fratutes  ;  cockade  infignse  ;  tumult,  malTacres,  and  all  thofe 
train  of  horrors  with  which  the  fearful  Tyrant  environs  his  feat  of  authority. 
No  !  confrious  of  his  uufpotted  integrity  and  patriotifm,  he  difdains  to  be 
indebted  for  any  huttrefs  to  his  power,  but  what  arifes  from  the  knowledge 
and  regard  of  his  fellow-citizens.  Under  fuch  a  beneficent  magiftracy,  where  is 
a  more  energetic  call  upon  the  forbearance  of  honeft  men,  in  the  luxuriance  of 
freedom  which  we  noiv  enjoy,  than  in  other  nations  where  the  execution  of  a 
mandate  is  prompt  and  horrible.  Having  the  latitude  to  do  much  wrong  with 
impunity,  would  be  a  guarantee,  with  a  noble  mind,  not  to  exercife  the  privi- 
lege in  wantonnefs.  Every  ordinance  that  has  been  iffued  by  Mr.  JefFerfon,  is. 
•caroled  by  companion ;  i:  feems  the  refult  of  a  conviction  that  we  mult,  (ere 


THE  HAMILTON  I  AD. 


9* 


Ere  luft  of  pow'r  had  made  me  lick  and  vain  ; 
Ere  Pride  had  warp'd  the  timbers  of  my  brain  : 
And  led  me,  like  a  vig'rous  ram,  to  be 
Select  and  branded  with  a  huge  D.  D. — 
Where  is  our  Royal  Faction  : — who  cart  tell  ? 
Maim'd  M  Contempt's  incurable  Hotel  ! 
The  Deadly  Seven,  who  held  this  State  in  fetters, 
By  Sin  are  fpotted  o'er,  like  Pefts  in  tetters  : 
Truth  holds  them  down  to  anfwer  for  her  woes, 
As  Dunftan  held  the  Devil  by  the  nofe  1 — 
All — n  is  bilious — Sm — th  is  in  a  trance, 
And  curft  St.  Vitus  teaches  B — ce  to  dance. 
Ed — m — ds  is  dwindling  with  a  cholera  morbh  ; 
And  D — gg — t's  fent  to  York  for  Doctor  Forbes  : 

many  years  more  are  part)  defcend  into  the  tomb,  where  the  ermine  and  the 
pomp  of  office,  and  all  the  emblazonment  of  the  herald  will  be  forgotten,  and 
where  nothing  can  furvive  the  cold  arrows  of  death,  but  the  virtue  of  the  man. 
He  has  found  the  great  fecret,  which  is  fo  illufixative  of  the  chriftian  doctrine, 
that  the  love  of  himfelf,  is  involved  in  the  love  of  others, 

"  Self-love  but  ferves  the  virtuous  mind  to  zvaie, 

As  toe  fmall  pebble  firs  the  peaceful  late  : 

The'  centre  moSd,  a  circle  frait  fucceeds  ; 

Another  filly  and  fill  another  fpieads  : 

Friend,  parent,  neighbour,  frf  it  todl  embrace^ 

His  country  next,  and  next  all  human  race** 
This  inauguration  will  be  memorable  in  the  annals  of  focial  greatnefs  :  It 
comes  upon  us,  like  the  return  of  the  genial  fpring,  when  the  brighteft  prof- 
pecl:s  are  touched  by  the  fweet  pencil  of  hope  :  Yet  it  is  not  flattering,  but  war- 
ranted bv  the  experience  of  the  fenfes.  We  hail  it,  as  the  millennium  of  Phi- 
lofophy  ;  as  the  commencement  of  thofe  liberal  times,  when  the  ethics  of  cur 
faith,  fhall  fuperfede  the  intolerance  of  the  zealot  •  when  the  vizor  fhall  be  pluck- 
ed from  the  vifage  of  the  hypocrite  ;  and  the  piety  cf  the  tongue,  be  arranged  in 
comparative  examination  with  the  morals  of  the  heart,  preparatory  to  their  proi- 
tration,  in  fackcloth  and  allies,  before  the  ar.ge?      ^he  Ih  ing  God. 

To  fecure  an  unvaried  return  of  thefe  bleiTings,  it  is  incumbent  cn  every  man 
to  be  at  his  poft,  for  "  We  have  fotcf/d  the  fake,  not  killed  it" 

It  is  our  bounden  duty,  to  elect  fuch  men  to  the  prominent  offices  cf  State 
Government,  whofe  principles  are  in  accordance  with  the  executive  authority 
of  the  empire.  The  whole  world  is  regarding  your  prefent  enjoyment  of  peace, 
ftrength,  economy  and  honor,  with  fenfations  of  admiration  and  envy.  As  le- 
curity  is  the  deceiver  of  men,  you  mufl  never  forget  the  caufes  of  the  declenfion 
of  the  Roman  Republic. — That  auguft  Commonwealth  never  fhene  with  fo 
much  luftre,  as  in  the  epoch  of  its  adverfiiy.  When  they  became  rich  and 
potent,  they  were  negligent  of  probity,  and  ungrateful  to  their  defenders. 
Deluged  with  ftreamsof  wickednefs  that  flowed  in  upon  their  inflituticns  and 
polluted  their  manners,  they  began  to  forfake  their  Gods  and  themfelvcs.  Spar- 


joo 


THE  1 1  AM  I L  TON  I A  b. 


Our  plots  'gainft  human  rights  have  been  unraveil'd  f 
And  both  the  G — cri — s  are  forely  gravelPd — 
I,  who  was  mounting  up  Ambition's  fky, 
The  great  High  Trieft  of  every  thing  that's  high  : 
Like  an  immenfc  Balloon,  admir'd  and  rare,  "1 
Till  Abr'am  fmote  the  flatulent  affair,  f 
Open'd  the  valve  and  let  out  all  the  air  !  J 
Damn'd  may  he  be,  for  this  unhallow'd  deed  ; 
Let  no  church  welcome  him,  or  eke  his  feed  : 
May  .all  deny  him  bev'rage  in  his  thirft  ; 
Be  he  'by  man  and  magistrate  accurft  : 
Emafculate  him  and  unftring  his  reins  : 
Hide  the  catholicon  when  he  complains  ; 
Monks  heap  Iiot  coals  upon  the  CaluihVs  head, 
And  u — e,  on  his  allies,  when  he's  dead. 

tacus,  a  Thraclan  flave  (who  was  the  Toniflaint  of  elder  times)  took  advantage 
pf  their  luxurious  resignation,  and  with  a  band  of  co-llaves,  defeated  their 
ftoutcft  Generals.  When  their  manly  qualities  were  cmafeulatcd  by  vicioufnefs, 
they  funic  into  effeminacy,  and  fuficrcd  their  charter  to  be  ulurped  by  Csefar  ; 
he  had  his  fucceflbrsin  dominion  and  iniquity,  until  a  horde  ot  Barbarians,  al- 
lured by  their  far-famed  voluptuoufneis,  defcended  from  the  Alps  into  the  preg- 
nant vallies  of  Italy,  and,  like  a  harfh  whirlwind,  fwept  the  embers  of  the  Ro- 
man people,  from  the  dwellings  of  their  fathers,  and  the  temples  of  their 
Olympian  Jove. 

If  this  empire  fhould  be  lucceffively  regulated,  by  men,  fimilar  in  thought 
and  virtue  to  Mr.  Jejferfofl,  it  will  be  fo  vafl  and  fnlendicl,  as  to  caft  thofe  of 
Rome,  AfTyria  and  Babylon  at  an  immeafurable  diilance.  Agreeably  to  the 
progrefs  of  time,  we  may  rationally  anticipate  the  blifs  when  agriculture  and 
commerce  fhall  traverfe  the  wilds  and  the  lakes,  fpreading  civilization  and  com- 
fort before  them  ;  until  bounded  by  another  fea,  the  glad  Genius  of  Columbia 
flbalj  repofe,  and^  become  dutiful  and  refponfive  to  the  voice  of  Liberty,  from 
tiie  margin  of  t};e  nortltweft  cc?an  ! 

Teach  your  children,  rcNht^C-itizens,  to  lifp  the  achievements  of  your  Rev- 
olutionary Heroes,  and  the  noble  axioms  of  your  Sages  at  that  momentous  crilis, 
that  the  charaJler  of  your  glory,  may  be  pure  and  luminous  and  durable  as  the 
Greek  fire.  InflruJt  them  in  the  civilities  of  demeanor,  that  our  condition  may 
be  as  graceful  as  it  is  vigorous.  Guard  the  Federal  compact,  that  was  be- 
queathed you,  by  your  immortal  Wafhington,  from  the  open  aiTaults  of  trea- 
fon,  andthe  more  dangerous  inroads  of  an  unfriendly  diffimulation.  Depofit 
it  in  the  ark  of  your  national  honor,  where  we  fervently  pray,  it  may  remain, 
integral  and  unpolluted,  for  ever  and  ever  ! 

As  a  Scholar  and  a  Philofopher,  Mr.  Jefrerfon  (lands  unrivalled  in  this  em- 
pire, at  leaft  there  is  no  extant  evidence  to  the  contrary.  Dr.  Franklin  was 
eminent  as  a  Philanthropic  and  a  Fhilofopher,  but  not  as  a  polite  Scholar,  and 
Mr.  Hamilton  had  but  a  limited  pretention  to  either  character,  although  he 


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THE   HAMILTONIAD.  SOt 

Rapt  in  a  reverie  of  fickly  doubts, 

Th'  egregious  E  t  prattles,  prates,  and  pouts  ; 

With  ambo-dexter  rights  and  wrongs  oppreft, 

The  Incubus  fits  heavy  on  his  breaft  ; 

With  fpleen  and  eccentricity  accurft, 

In  plaintive  numbers  thus  he  fwell'd  and  burft, 

Like  twilight  gleams  I  glimmer  on  the  fight, 

Ling'ring  towards  day,  but  finking  into  night; 

To  King  or  Freedom  never  to  be  fixt  ; 

A  Friend  to  neither,  but  a  Thing  betwixt  ; 

A  vocal  Dipthong,  true  to  neither  houfe  ; 

A  Bat  of  Faction,  neither  bird  nor  moufe  : 

A  vain  Camelion,  fraught  with  varying  pow'r, 

To  take  the  tint  which  Folly  gives  the  hour  : 

When,  in  prefumptuous  mood,  I'm  waxing  hot, 

Keen  Randolph  rakes  me  with  an  attic  {hot  ; 

had  fatal  merit  as  a  political  Leader.  We  have  a  cheerful  expectation  that  Mr. 
Jefferfon,  may  introduce  the  elements  of  a  national  injlitute,  among  us,  to  place 
Science  on  a  bans  of  appropriate  honor.  The  general  ftate  of  Literature  is 
truly  deplorable  ;  it  is  rounded  with  ignorance  and  calumny — Satire  is  a 
wholefome  corrective,  that  requires  eminent  endowments  and  acquirements  to 
enforce,  but  every  coarfe  mifcreant  can  defame,  and  they,  who  are  moft  brutal, 
believe  they  are  moft  in  requeft.  We  cannot  think  of  the  vaft  importance  of 
this  country  to  the  felicity  of  the  whole  human  race,  without  being  tremblingly 
anxious  for  the  eftablifhment  of  every  advantage,  that  can  be  conducive  to  itj 
power  and  glory — At  prefent,  Montefquieu  and  Noah  Webfer,  the  Iliad  and  TanLca 
Poodle,  are  nearly  in  the  fame  fcale  of  praife  ! 

As  there  is  an  unufual  portion  of  good  fenfe,  in  the  community,  it  has  often 
aftonifhed  us,ithat  there  fhrouid  be  fo  little  practical  decorum,  though  decorum 
is  the  food  of 'morals. — We  fhonld'be  happy  to  fee  the  Republicans  engraft 
arijlocratic  mbfnners  upon  democratic  principles  : — as  'ptoKtenefs  is  the  necefTarjr  an4 
required  rjfult  of  civilization,  it  will  force  itfelf  eventually,  into  our  embraces  $ 
if  it  is  no^liuffered  to  advance  in  mild  affociation  with  freedom,  it  will  afiume 
a  partial  aspect,  and  bur  ft  upon  us,  in  the  fplendid  impofitions  of  a  monarchy. 
—  We  are^xious  to  have  it  proved,  that  what  fociety  may  gain  in  principles % 
they  may  not  lofe  in  'manners.  We  fervently  hope  the  generous  influence  of 
Mr.  Jefferfon's  authority,  may  add  fuch  force  to  the  hofpitality  of  the  nation, 
that  when  diftinguifhed  men  arrive  in  America,  in  conformity  with  Congref- 
Conal  invitation,  they  may  receive  thofe  fweetened  civilities  of  life,  which  are 
uniformly  enjoyed  in  the  elder  countries,  where  no  fuch  allurement  is  held 
forth. — When  this  amelioration  occurs,  if  another  Ovid  fhould  bo  exiled  by 
another  Tyrant,  he  will  not  be  envied  for  his  genius,  nor  be  obnoxious  for  his 
accomplifhments. — Then  the  Graces  and  the  Mufes,  will  rejoice,  in  the  libera- 
tion of  the  New  World,  Anthony  Pasquin. 


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THE  II A  MILTON  I AB. 


Then  I  exclaim,  in  Terror's  dulcet  tone, 

Take  me  Dubiety,  Fin  all  thy  own — 

Bear  me,  while  breathing,  from  this  dreaded  fray  : 

Fold  me  in  cotton  for  fome  fafer  day — 

What's  Virtue  but  a  name  ? — we're  all  cnflav'd  : 

Lo  !  the  worn  Yet'ran,*  begs  of  him  he — fav'd  1 

•  Tur.  VETERAN  op  '76. 

V7:irx  the  tyrants  of  Britain,  with  fnrv  opprefs'd  us  ; 

And  the  States  lhook  with  terror,  our  foes  fo  diftrefi'd  us  ; 

We  girded  our  fwords  on,  while  Washington  LIcfs'd  us, 

And  for  this  I  have  curies  and  rags  for  rhy  ration  : — Date  ololum  Bdifam^ 

Ah  !  give  a  cent  to  a  Soldier  of  the  nation. 

I  drove  the  fierce  legions  from  Lexington  village, 

"With  arms,  forg'd  with  zeal,  from  the  ploughiharcs  for  tillage  ; 

Cave  our  Country  to  hope — fav'd  your  houfes  from  pillage. 

At  fam'd  Bunker's  Hill  our  beft  patriot's  aflcmbled, 
And  thunder'd  our  vengeance  till  Tyranny  trembled 
Then  honor  gave  law,  and  none  honor  dilVembled. 

At  Monmouth,  by  day  break,  we  all  got  in  motion, 
And  fpik'd  up  their  cannon,  and  fpoil'd  their  devotion  ; 
While  the  Rivers,  all  blood  ftuin'd,  ran  fcar'd  to  the  ocean. 

At  fam'd  Saratoga,  we  Burgoyne  confounded, 
Where  even  the  Savage,  look'd  pile  and  aftuvir.dcd, 
But  we  play'd  Tamhy  Doodle  and  had  them  furrounded. 

At  T»rk  Toivn,  when  France  came,  our  rights  to  reftore  us. 
We  made  flout  Cornvvallis,  for  quarter  implore  us, 
While  Tarlton  and  he  laid  their  fwords  down  before  us, 

I  loft  my  right  eve,  in  defending  your  glory  : 

1  loft  my  firm  leg,  in  deftroying  a  Tory  : 

Then  the  air  fung  my  praifes,  but  that's  an  old  ftory. 

Yonder  Federal  Lord  who  looks  down  fo  difdainful, 
Got  his  wealth,  like  a  knave,  from  our  tickets  fo  gainful  ; 
\  But  Oblivion  ftcp  in,  for  that  thought  is  too  painful. 

Are  we  bcrn  to  do  good,  and  that  good  to  be  hated  ? 

Are  we  innately  flaves,  or  with  Liberty  fated  ? 

Why  are  heroes  in  .trouble,  by  infolence  bated  ?  , 

What  is  man  ? — what  are  rights,  but  a  thing  and  a  dream.  Sir  ? 
What  is  joy,  but  a  flafh,  o'er  the  mind,  like  a  ?!eam,  Sir^ 
Who'd  believe  that  I  icas,  who  could  fee  what  I         Sir  i 

With  a  heart  that  Ingratitude's  cleft  to  the  core,  Sir, 
With  a  fpirit,  that  once  you  were  proud  to  adore,  Sir, 
I  muft  wander,  an  Outcaft,  from  door  unto  doer,  Sir. 

Oh,  my  God  !  by  whom  all  mortal  woe  is  affuaged  ; 

Who  fhelter'd  the  Lamb  when  fell  cruelty  raged  ; 

Keep  the  pitileis  ftorm  from  a  head  that's  fo  aged  ; 

For  here  I  have  curfes  and  rags  for  my  ration  j — Dai;  cbolum  Belifarit*. 

Ah  give  2.  cent  to  a  Soldier  of  the  natien  !  A  P. 


Ifhe  Hamilton i ad. 


I  was  not  born  to  follow  Reafon's  track  ; 
I,  when  I  pleafe,  take  Wifdom's  fails  aback  : 
I,  can  teaze  Pallas,  on  her  mental  throne  ; 
In  fhort,  I'm,  I — I  am  myfelf  alone  ! 

Then  mouths,  by  myriads,  bellow'd  in  the  air9 
In  one  dire  burft  of  horrible  defpair  : 
The  hideous  yell  of  many  tongues  began, 
To  call  on  Pity,  like  a  proftrate  clan  : 
Thick  as  the  miafm  in  the  folar  blaze  ; 
Thick  as  the  hands  applaud,  when  Bernard  plays  3 
Thick  as  glad  mobs  to  fee  a  ftorm-torn  wreck  : 
Thick  as  March-wafted  duft  on  Bofton  neck  : 
Thick  as  the  queftions  in  a  crowded  ftage  : 
Thick  as  the  curfes  from  a  Prieft,  in  rage  : 
Thick  as  the  infects  flit  in  Ruin's  flame  ; 
Thick  as  the  (landers  float  round  Honor's  name  : 
Thick  as  the  rice-ftalks  in  the  damp  favannah  ; 
Thick  as  the  Coxcombs  buz  round  peerlefs  Anna. 
While  the  malignant  Paflions  urg'd  their  flaves, 
And  Mercy  frown'd  upon  the  fhudd'ring  knaves. 
So  many  bofom-rending,  heart-drawn  flghs  ; 
Such  tides  of  mis'ry  ifluing  from  the  eyes  : 
Yet  all  for  pride,  and  none  for  virtue  given, 
Provok'd  the  vengeance  of  obferving  Heaven  : 
Who  breath'd,  in  ire,  th'  incontinent  decree  ; 
And  bade  their  human  powers  ceafe  to  be. 
Swift  as  Aurora's  gleam  pervades  the  Iky — 
Rapid  as  Malice  bears  th'  envenom'd  lie, 
T'  ingulph  the  fated  virtuous  in  defpair — 
Fleet,  as  the  livid  Lightning  cleaves  the  air  : 
A  fweeping  Metamorphofis  enfu'd, 
And  chang'd  the  functions  of  the  fniv'lling  brood  : 


$04  THE  HA  MILTON  I  ADi, 

Reptiles  and  Animals,  bore  Dicks  and  Ned3, 
And  flirunk  (difhonor'd)  with  the  fouls  of  Feds  ( 
Ell — t,  the  egotift,  (of  largefs  baulk'd) 
Chang'd  (not  degraded)  as  a  Magpie  talk'd — 
The  belching  Luther  dwindled  to  a  Leech, 
And  Park  a  Gnat  upon  Apollo's  breech— 
The  Deadly  Seven,  who've  pertinacious  ftrove, 
To  fliut  Connecticut  from  focial  love  : 
Who  {talk'd  o'er  Honor  with  tyrannic  aims/ 
Smote  the  fcarr'd  Soldier,  and  efTac'd  his  claims  ; 
Were  turn'd  in  rav'nous  Sharks,  to  nurture  pain, 
And  maffacrc  weak  Gudgeons  in  the  main  ; 
While,  as  their  Piht-fijh,  ilern  T — ■ — y  rode 
To  fnuff  the  fcent,  and  lead  them  on  to  blood  ! 
Huge  E — y  was  tranfmutcd  to  a  Moufe  : 
Th'  unmanner'd  Bcaji  of  Groton,  to — a  Loufe  : 
Ot — s,  a  Humming- Bird,  on  Daphne's  tree, 
And  kingly  Rufus  to  a  fleur  de  Lis,: 

D  r,  a  lufus  nattira  in  growth, 

Nor  this,  nor  that,  but  fomething  between  both  > 
H — lb — t,  a  Parrot,  Vanity  had  caught, 
Prattling  the  obloquy,  that  Treafon  taught — 
Coleman  a  watch-dog,  Fallacy  had  gain'd, 
Eager  to  bark  and  fond  of — being  chain'd — 
Fezzy  ('twas  poflible)  became  dimmifh'd 
To  a  Mufquiio,  and  the  labour  nnifh'd  ! 
The  reft  were  damn'd,  in  heaps,  to  endlefs  pain, 
And  Virtue  took  her  ftation,  once  again  ! 

THE  FEDERAL  EPITAPH. 
We  were  well  : 
Would   be  better, 
And  here  we  are  ! 
Heu,  quam  difficilis  gloria  cujlodia  eft  ! 
No/he  Teipfum — .Bon  foir,  mon  ami — Och  hoan,  och  hoan  I 


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